Sony A300 Review

The Sony A300 is certainly a fun camera to use, owing to its zippy Live View performance, tilting screen and advanced feature set. While plastic, it is well made, looking and feeling like it was built to last. The control interface is largely intuitive and easy to use, although allow yourself a bit of time to get used to it if you are switching from another brand. If I had to pick one of its many features, I would cast my vote in favour of Manual Exposure Shift. This is by no means a new function – in fact, some cameras had it half a century ago – but is sorely missing from most contemporary SLRs.

Sony also deserve our accolades for resurrecting and rethinking Live View 'Mode A', i.e. live view obtained using a secondary sensor in the optical path. But while their solution has brought about a noticeable improvement in viewfinder brightness, it has left the OVF rather small when compared to other DSLRs, even those with a similarly sized sensor. In the long run, Sony may want to release DSLRs with dual-mode live view to please both those that want fast auto-focus and those who like to focus manually and compose their shots with utmost precision.

Zoltan Arva-Toth

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