Sony Alpha A35 Camera review

The new impressive Sony Alpha A35 camera has been pleasantly welcomed by both expert reviewers and the users. It gives tough competition to all the surviving cameras of it’s like in the market. The A35 seems to have come with the aim to capture the market with its impressive performance.

16.2 Mega Pixel Camera

The A35 has got a 16.2 mega pixel camera with auto-focussing 18mm-35mm, f3.5-5.6 aperture lens. It has got an optical CMOS sensor with several shooting programs like sports action, macro, portrait, daylight, landscape, sweep panorama, night view, night portrait and handheld twilight.

The white balancing presets are cloudy, automatic, shady, custom, flash, incandescent and fluorescent.

File Formats

The stills are recorded in RAW and JPEG formats and videos in MPEG4 and AVCHD formats. The flash modes available in the camera are slow synchro, fill flash mode, auto mode, red eye reduction and rear curtain sync mode.

The camera has an electronic view finder and TFT active matrix 3.0 inches colour LCD. The microphone is built in.

Camera Dimension

The system requirement for PC connection is MS Windows XP SP3, MS Windows Vista SP2, MS Windows 7 and Apple Mac OS X 10.3.x or later. Battery charger and rechargeable lithium-ion batteries are included in the accessories that come with the camera.

The dimensions of the camera are width 4.9 inches, height 3.6 inches and depth 3.3 inches. It weighs 0.9 lbs.

Performance

A35 is comparatively quite light for its size. It is a mini powerhouse of performance. Its multi shot modes are a delight for the user. The handheld twilight mode combines six shots without slowing its speed, which is quite a surprise.

A35 gives a very impressive performance with an equally good battery life.

The image quality is undoubtedly better than A35 or A55. It facilitates updated image processing delivering and improvised noise reduction. The JPEG favourers are blessed with A35 that takes amazingly pleasing photos in this format.

This camera is loaded with all the standard features of Sony like dynamic range optimisation and auto HDR, 3D, sweep panorama etc.

A new addition is the tele-zoom high speed shooting mode that digitally zooms 8 megapixel 7 frames per second burst mode. This has been welcomed with open arms. Another new addition to its features’ list is the picture effect menu.

This gives effect options of selecting colours R, Y, G or B, retro, pop art, posterizing and vignetting. This camera has a fixed translucent mirror design and interchangeable lens.

Drawbacks

Although not majorly disappointing A35 doesn’t have updated video options and doesn’t pick up the NEX’s interface convention.

Should you buy it ?

You can’t stay away but buy this very coveted camera Alpha A35 by Sony which according to all expert reviews is the new light weighted, great performing and value for money camera.

It never gives a chance to fade away in oblivion and will be the apple of the eye for all camera lovers and ardent photographers.