09-14-2010, 11:03 PM
I do not get why some have to make out as if the SOny A55 is an amazing machine.
It is just a DLSR-like camera, from the bottom end (compact consumer end) of the DSLR market.
Does it really offer 10 fps, as we know it from DSLRs? No. It offers 3fps that is comparable, and a strange 6fps mode that does not offer a view of the moving subject, and an even stranger 10fps mode which needs to have the lens at f3.5 (or f4 or f5.6 or f6.3 if the lens does not open up that far), with completely auto behavior.
Add to that the AF system having big trouble actually AF tracking (source dpreview).
So in effect, its real fps performance is 3 fps, and its 6 and 10 fps modes are too crippled (like the 11 fps APS-C mode from the Nikon D3).
Is it bad, that the A55v behaves the way it does? Of course not. But be realistic about its abilities.
Since boren attacks the E-5 with the A55v features, lets look at more details.
The view finder. The E-5, like the E-3, has a big heavy body partly because of an extremely big view finder. Not unimportant, that big view finder, it makes lifts the camera into the more professional field.
Is the EVF from the Sony A55v better? No, it is worse. Does that matter? Of course not, the A55v does not pretend to be a professional tool.
The body. The E-5 has a weather sealed body, made mostly from a metal alloy, like other professional cameras (A900/850, 5D mk II, 1D(s) series, 7D, D3(x/s), D700, D300). Does the A55v offer that? No. Is that bad? Of course not. It is not a same level camera.
One does not have to like the E-5, but it is a very good professional option for the 4/3rds platform. Is the A55v a professional camera? Clearly not. It is not intended to be one either.
It is just a DLSR-like camera, from the bottom end (compact consumer end) of the DSLR market.
Does it really offer 10 fps, as we know it from DSLRs? No. It offers 3fps that is comparable, and a strange 6fps mode that does not offer a view of the moving subject, and an even stranger 10fps mode which needs to have the lens at f3.5 (or f4 or f5.6 or f6.3 if the lens does not open up that far), with completely auto behavior.
Add to that the AF system having big trouble actually AF tracking (source dpreview).
So in effect, its real fps performance is 3 fps, and its 6 and 10 fps modes are too crippled (like the 11 fps APS-C mode from the Nikon D3).
Is it bad, that the A55v behaves the way it does? Of course not. But be realistic about its abilities.
Since boren attacks the E-5 with the A55v features, lets look at more details.
The view finder. The E-5, like the E-3, has a big heavy body partly because of an extremely big view finder. Not unimportant, that big view finder, it makes lifts the camera into the more professional field.
Is the EVF from the Sony A55v better? No, it is worse. Does that matter? Of course not, the A55v does not pretend to be a professional tool.
The body. The E-5 has a weather sealed body, made mostly from a metal alloy, like other professional cameras (A900/850, 5D mk II, 1D(s) series, 7D, D3(x/s), D700, D300). Does the A55v offer that? No. Is that bad? Of course not. It is not a same level camera.
One does not have to like the E-5, but it is a very good professional option for the 4/3rds platform. Is the A55v a professional camera? Clearly not. It is not intended to be one either.