Sony SLT-A58Y 20.1 MP DSLR Camera (18-55 mm and 55-200 mm) (Black) - Overview

Introduction

The Sony 20.1 MP Digital SLR Camera 18-55 mm and 55-200 mm will bring out the photographer in you. Featuring 20.1 effective MP and Exmor APS HD CMOS Sensor, this black camera makes shooting movies and capturing stills fun, easy and effective. Its Exmor sensor comes with RGB primary colour filters offering high performance and great colour balance in dimly lit environment. With dust reduction coating, its image sensor is protected for durability. You will love your high-quality images shot through its A-mount lens, Minolta or Konica Minolta lenses and high-contrast OLED Tru-Finder viewfinder. The electronic viewfinder offers up to 0.88x magnification and -4.0 to +4.0m diopter control, allowing ultra clarity and precision shots with high resolution. Shooting still images in any light condition is possible with this camera, as its wide-ranging ISO 100-16000 sensitivity allows it to absorb more light to give you sharp image without flash. Facilitating a picture perfect shot is its clear image zoom that magnifies image from the centre to 2x, keeping the pixel count intact. You will love taking clear shots, after properly framing them on its 2.7 TFT LCD screen. This tiltable screen makes it easy to capture shots from any angle and display images at 460800 dot resolution. With this camera, you can record image in RAW, RAW+JPEG, JPEG Fine and JPEG format. You can connect this Sony 20.1 MP Digital SLR camera with other devices using its USB v2.0 and HDMI out ports.

Performance

Take this Sony Digital SLR camera on your adventurous expeditions to bring home some great memories. You can get stunning shot in low light while you are bird watching in a dark forest area with its D-Range Optimizer. This DRO technology corrects the image and maintains its smooth, natural effect by carefully detailing the parts that are shadowed or have too much light. Its Auto High Dynamic Range of the sensor compresses the shadow or highlights in the image while expanding the dynamic range. Doing this it applies proper tonal curve to the images, making the image look natural and pleasing. You can even create memorable movies on your trip by shooting quick Full HD movies. Continuously shoot videos effectively with this digital SLR camera, its accelerated full-time continuous phase-detection AF offers sharp and clear focus while shooting a movie at 8 fps in the Tele-zoom Continuous Advance Priority AE mode. To get a cinema quality video of 24p resolution or super smooth playback, you have to record at 60i. It also comes with P/A/S/M modes that include Program, Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority and Manual, offering effective movie-making options. Shooting in low-light is made easy with the Multi-Frame Noise Reduction, which shoots 6 images at a 2 stop shutter speed to provide less blur and judder. All that you click you can comfortably save in this camera as it comes with upgradeable memory. It supports Memory Stick PRO Duo, Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo, Memory Stick XC-HG Duo, SD, SDHC, and SDXC memory card. Other camera features include 1200 Zone Evaluative metering, ISO 100 sensitivity, red eye reduction, maximum 5 fps high continuous shots and 2.5 fps low continuous shots.

Shoots like Professional

Equipped with advanced Sony Translucent Mirror Technology, every shot taken by this Sony 20.1 MP camera will look like a professional shot. Whether it is a sunny beach or hazy mountain area, you will experience balanced picture offered by a58 technology that merges the excellence of all features to enable comfortable and carefree shooting with attractive picture. Its Lock-on Auto Focus technology increases the in-focus rate of the subject by, continuously adjusting the target frame size by detecting subject size and other characteristics. With the help of 3 cross sensors the 15 points AF system tracks subjects in motion and brings the action to stand still, providing great lighting and in turn clear and sharp picture. By selecting 1 of its 4 modes including Wide, Zone, Spot or Local, the camera locks the picture instantly using the information of the provided setting. You can choose the subject alone or with the background frame and trim it as you want it by just selecting it and the Auto Object Framing features instantly saves the trimmed image giving you a perfect shot. Making your photo capturing experience delightful and easy this Sony DSLR Camera 18-55 mm and 55-200 mm comes with various modes including 10 white balance settings, iAUTO, Flash Off, Superior Auto, 8 Scene Selectors, Sweep Panorama and Picture Effect.

Recommendation

Ideal for professionals and amateurs, this Sony 20.1 MP Digital SLR Camera 18-55 mm and 55-200 mm black is smart and easy-to-use. It features advanced technology and offers superior picture quality.