Rather than grafting pro multichannel support on the camera, which can be quite confusing to configure, it's basically binary: on or off. Like the A200, the A350 also supports wireless flash, uncommon but not unique in this price class, using the same appropriately bare-bones implementation as the A200. In addition, Sony incorporates a flip-up LCD, which makes the feature not just practical, but actually useful (predominantly for overhead and from-the-hip shooting).
With a secondary sensor dedicated to receiving a preview image off the imaging sensor, there's no need to flip the mirror up for preview and focus, then flip it back down to shoot, proving a more typical snapshot-like experience when framing via the 2.7-inch LCD. Sony's 2-sensor Live View implementation harks back to the more seamless approach pioneered-and subsequently discarded-by Olympus. Especially since the A350 has a very low-magnification 0.74x viewfinder. They're very dim and some people may have trouble seeing them.
More important, Sony uses a semiproprietary combo micro USB/audiovisual connector on all its dSLRs, for no reason that I can see other than to force you to buy a cable from them if you lose the bundled one.Īdditionally, all of Sony's lower-end dSLRs use lines rather than squares for the 9 off-center focus-point indicators. The USB connector sits inside the CF card compartment, which means you have to leave the door open while downloading, potentially allowing all sorts of schmutz to get onto the card-slot contacts (and, if you're as accident prone as me, providing a protrusion to hit and hurl the camera to the floor). Since much of the design matches that of the A200, I have similar complaints about the USB placement as well. Also, the error message that it pops up for it should be more helpful than "Invalid Operation." Most cameras let you change the image size-which is what this does-but I guess Sony thinks your need for that is more pressing than for switching metering modes or white balance.
#SONY A350 CHARGER MANUAL#
I had to read the manual to figure out what this button does: it's the Smart Teleconverter, actually a 1.4x or 2x digital zoom which only works in Live View mode. For other inexpensive alternatives you'll have to turn to compatible A-mount Konica Minolta, Sigma, or Tamron offerings.
#SONY A350 CHARGER PLUS#
Those two lenses, plus the 75-300mm SAL-75300, currently comprise Sony's complete entry-level lens lineup. Sony offers the A350 in three packages: body only, a kit with the SAL-1870 18-70mm f3.5-5.6 lens, which we tested, and a dual-lens kit that adds the SAL-55200 55-200mm f4-5.6 model. Sony does offer an almost identical 10-megapixel model, the Alpha DSLR-A300, which lists for about $200 less. Unsurprisingly, however, Sony made some compromises so that the A350 could lay claim to the title of highest-resolution budget dSLR. And you wouldn't be far off the mark: there's a lot to like in the A350, and I suspect it will garner its share of fans.
With its 14-megapixel CCD, flip-up LCD, sensor-shift image stabilizer, and built-in wireless flash controller, the feature-packed Sony Alpha DSLR-A350 seems like a cornucopia of photographic goodness for the budget shopper.
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