Sony Alpha DSLR-A550 Y 14.2MP Digital SLR Camera 

and 18-55mm and 55-200mm Lenses Bundle Kit

I'm cheerful with this camera. However, the development of digital cameras is very stable so the camera is prone to be behind callous verge in a connect of days. I bought this camera because it is not that luxurious, so one can always upgrade. Some good and bad equipment:

- Steady shot makes it feasible to take very clear films at 1/15.

- Quite ample performance up to ASA 800. I can go up to ASA 12,800, which fallout in blast, but also urgent cinema in very low light. If you, like me, hatred with the blaze, this is great. I'd quite have grain than lifeless glisten light.

- Very brusque live viewfinder. I cannot do without this ability anymore. Not many upper-end DSLR cameras have this affair yet.

- The autofocus does not work that well in low light. However, the Manual Focus Live Viewfinder occasion is very good when with physical focus in low light and low disparity settings. Even if it is very shade the incident is lit up in the viewfinder and physical focusing becomes relaxed. Still it is very maddening that the camera doesn't have some kind of infrared focusing in darkness. The manual focusing factory but it is also not that passing and it requires the LCD partition form (not the viewfinder kind)

- The camera could be better prepared for HDR (high dynamic scale) photography. There is a built in perform pleasing two shots (great!). This mechanism approved if you don't use the 'vehicle' location, which just give a very small adjustment. In high diverge settings (or if you use PC software) you want three or four photos. However, pleasing bracketed exposures in 1 or 2 EV steps is not likely. I can do bracket exposures in 0.3 or 0.7, so Sony clearly land back on performance for the next develop in 2010 (bad!).

- The camera hysterics okay in my flag gentleman sized hands. Bigger might fit better but it is also polite that the camera is not awkward.

- Information panel is informative, except for ASA echelon when using ASA Auto situation. It would have been very polite to know what ASA altitude the camera choose to use when in Program style. ASA is as important as crack and shutter pace.

If you buy this camera, skip the 18-55 lens and go for the 18-250 lens instead Sony SAL18250 Alpha DT 18-250mm f/3.5-6.3 High Magnification Zoom Lens w/Lens Hood. That is a good allround lens, a bit measured but an amazing vary, 27-375mm equivalent. I actually don't find a 200mm zoom that positive, but when you can go up to 375mm new opportunities open. If you want to exhaust some more, get the 50mm f/1.4 Sony 50mm f/1.4 Lens for Sony Alpha Digital SLR Camera. That lens would meeting like 75mm, which is not best but that is genuinely the only occasion of receiving a spacious open opening lens. (Sony also sells a 35mm f/1.4, but that is very luxurious and has expected poor reviews.) The help with the 50mm f/1.4 lens is that it is sated-trick so it can be used when you later upgrade to a fullformat camera.

I would also advice getting Sony Alpha RMT-DSLR1 Camera Remote (Black). This is both cheaper and more functional than the wired remote Sony RM-S1AM Remote Commander for Sony Alpha Digital SLR Camera. See my reviews of those harvest