Hello there, great and wise women and men of PDML. I have witnessed Sony
SLT-A55 and here is the impressions from that encounter:
1. It is small and light. It is so small that people with bigger hands
(unlike me) may have difficulty operating it.
2. A number of operations require that you press buttons on the back of
the camera and if you want to do so without taking it away from your
eye, it may be a bit difficult at first. But after two-three times I did
it, it did not felt awkward at all.
3. The lack of mirror slap is unusual. It is even more unusual that the
sound of shutter release /seems/ like it is combined of two distinct
sounds. It is not loud, though it is hard to tell if K-7 is quieter. And
I did not have K-7 on me to compare them side by side.
4. The EVF. Well, EVFs will rule the world. Seriously. Consider this:
a. To perform precision manual focus you simply point you camera where
you want, press "delete" button twice and you get x7.5 magnified area
where you can focus as precise as you want. You will also see how shaky
your hands, but once you depress ever so slightly the shutter release
button, the view returns back to regular and you can compose the shot.
My immediate and first impression is that this is /significantly/ more
convenient than split focusing screen and magnifying eye cap, simply
because you get way more magnification and hence the precision. I tried
it and was impressed by how easy the process was and how precise I could
focus effectively right out of the box.
b. Since this thing is electronic, you can do all kinds of menu related
operations without taking the camera off your eye. I can hardly imagine
how often such a thing could be useful, but it is there nonetheless.
c. I did a but of moving of the camera around rapidly - the response of
the VF was sufficiently smooth. Nothing I could object to.
d. At the end I did feel a bit of strain in my eyes, but it has to be
said that:
d1. I couldn't change the diopter correction if there were any.
d2. I usually have one or two days of felt eye strain if I change
monitors. Then it subsides. May be something similar would have happened
if I had this camera for more than 15 minutes.
5. As a funny or peculiar point, I'd like to point out that this camera
also has the electronic level that is implemented as a rather odd
looking bracket around the center of the screen.
6. And finally, for those of us who like to geotag - this camera has a
built-in GPS module that automatically geotags your images.
All in all - worthy of any praise and quite excellent camera.
Boris
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