Equipment:
here forever
Sony SLT - alpha 33L inclusive battery / memory card / strap ........ 525gr.
Sony SAL 3.5 - 5.6 / 16-105 / 62mm Fltergewinde / 470gr.
professional and special orders
Canon EOS 550D
Tamron ..... 2.8 / 18-50 VC
Canon ..... 4.0 / 70-200 IS
Canon ..... 1.8 / 50 II
Tamron 3.5-4.5 / 10-20 SP Di II
Hab tested much and decided in the end Canon and Tamron lenses and a light equipment for always with the Sony Alpha 33rd
Important to me is an effective equipment for a variety of situations, lightweight but very good image quality.
This all meet the above two equipments.
Have many cameras previously gekauft..verkauft..getestet and am now at Canon and landed back at Sony.
Everything has started many years ago with a Sony Alpha 100, as my first digital SLR, which in many years had still done in a colleague their services and no defect.
Did not always take the Canon gear and was looking for a lightweight but good solution for wherever you go.
The camera should have a "large" sensor, so no compact with souped Mini sensors a bestseller, but with noise as the sea.
Half a year I got the Olympus Pen E-PL1 photographed and am very excited about this camera, only has me disturbed and from the electronic viewfinder constant.
That is why now the Sony Alpha 33. anticipation, the viewfinder is to blame for the lack of a point.
Weight of the camera with battery & memory card, to the Sony SAL 3.5 - 5.6 / 16-105 makes ca.1kg together forever doing.
Heavier than a compact, priced slightly more than the precious compact from Canon and Co. for excellent image quality and flexibility thanks to changing lenses possibility.
Plus points
+ Easy and compact size
+ Very good handling for not alzu big hands (before definitely try in a shop)
+ All functions like a "real" SLR
+ Different modes adjustable (eg Porträt..Landschaft..Standard etc)
+ Individual settings for Schärfe..Kontrast..Farbsättigung
+ ISO, camera internally limited ISO 100 to 1600 (except for auto features)
+ Absolutely top, ISO 1600 is still good, with image editing is the slight noise bie ISO 1600 very well to remove ISO to 800
+ Camera always offers the smallest possible ISO value, depending on the brightness, ISO value screwed not equal to 800 and more high - image - quality a priority
+ Memory Pro HG and the latest SDXC cards available
+ Folding and rotatable display - I personally like the attachment below - very good picture quality
+ 16x9 display after initial doubts on my part not annoying - ideal for panoramic photos
+ 16x9 viewfinder, so at 3: 2 setting a frame around the picture, but still 100% of the finished image detail
+ Panorama function
+ Grid display in the viewfinder (thanks to new electronic viewfinder possible)
+ Electronic level
+ Real LiveView mode thanks to light mirror with no delay or distortion
+ Automatic switching of the display (trip) to the viewfinder and back thanks to Eye Control
+ All necessary insertions and viewfinder
+ Very brighter and viewfinder (also note Minus point!)
+ Excellent color photographs in all modes of default to portrait
+ RAW & JEPG simultaneously record (should already be standard)
+ Very good and sufficient image editing software for amateur photographers, professionals usually have another program
+ Landscapes in excellent sharpness and color reproduction (kit lens)
+ Portrait with beautiful Bukeh (kit lens)
+ Zoo with the objective mentioned above Minolta - excellent picture quality
+ Automatic programs work very well - it is the amateur photographer can leave with little knowledge
+ Anti-shake in the camera, the best of all DSLR systems (had Nikon, Olympus, Canon) can therefore compare well
+ Processing of the camera in this class very well
Neutral
# Battery and memory card in a compartment
# ISO value limit of camera set (100-1600), individual limiting additionally would not be bad
Minus point
- Weak battery reaches "only" up to 250 photos, which would be better
- Strong ghosting of the electronic viewfinder (is determined by a following update to rectify)
- Suitable Due to the afterimage of the viewfinder less for sports photography (perhaps for chess if the pieces move slowly)
Conclusion
* Because the negatives were negligible for me there by myself a buy recommendation for this camera technology from Sony
* 2nd Battery is mandatory for this technology (finder consumes a lot of battery power)
* This review refers to the Sony Alpha 33 as a still camera and not on the video function (I never use)
* Camera technology at its best, Thank you Sony, also because the excellent Minolta lenses are still usable
* A very good camera for the trip of amateur photographers with high demands
* As a second camera for semi-professionals worth considering, thanks to the better delivery lens selection by Minolta
* 16: 9 display and the viewfinder used to, it is ideal for panoramic function
* Gray limitation in the viewfinder at 3: 2 setting falls after several stop using the camera on
* Housing is very solid processed and more stable than the Canon 550D although smaller and 100gr. lighter
* With the light and very good Minolta D lenses you get a very good equipment for always there
