Sony Alpha DSLR-A100K is rated 7.5/10 on CNET

Sony Alpha DSLR-A100K is rated 7.5/10 on CNET and other reviews also
seem to have very good comments on Sony Alpha DSLR-A100K.

Has any one tried this first hand? Any opinions?

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I had about 10 minutes with one - too short to make any real opinion on
it, but the views that I gained were:
Anti-shake is amazing - using a 300mm lens indoors with no flash (about
1/2 sec exposure) I was able to take a reasonably clear photo of some
fixture on the wall in the room I was in. With Antishake off it was an
unrecognisable blur.
Colour seemed a little off - now admittedly I didn't take a white
balance reading from a grey card, and the room I was in had a mix of
tungsten and flourescent lighting.
Clarity and resolution of the photos is what you would expect from 10MP.
Noise was a little higher than I would have liked - BUT - I was using a
pre-release model, and I noticed that despite me manually setting ISO to
100, it still was using ISO's of the order of 400-800. This appears to
be a bug in the pre-release model.
The feel of the camera was very nice - it felt quite balanced in my
hand. I find the 5D/D50/D70 to be uncomfortably big in my hand, the 350D
to be awkward, so until now the only DSLR's I've liked the feel of were
30D, Pentax *istD and the Olympus E300.
The kit lens seemed to be quite sharp for a kit lens.
Dynamic range seemed excellent - the room I was in had some light boxes
with umbrellas etc - I was able to take a shot of the umbrellas, and the
subject that was illuminated with them, without blowing highlights or
losing shadows in mud.
Overall I found it to be quite a nice camera. My impression after my
short play was "I want one". The couple of glitches with colour and ISO
that I had could have either been a) I didn't know how to use it, or b)
pre-release bugs. Hopefully I will soon be able to get a longer play on
a release model to make a more accurate decision on it.

 

Thank you for the detailed analysis.

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