Do you have the winter blues? let the Sony DSLR-A700
take you back a few months into the late summer and fall with some glorious
summer macro and fall landscape photography. The Sony Alpha A700 delivers great
image quality and exceptional dynamic range shot, after shot, after shot. The
metering system on the Sony Alpha A700 seems fantastic and this camera easily
delivers more keepers than any camera I have ever owned.

To view the Sony Alpha A700 Nature and Bee gallery
click here.

To view the Sony Alpha A700 Autumn photo gallery click
here.

To enter the Sony Alpha Image gallery main page click here.

-Sonolta 2-9-2008

The Sony a700 ISO3200 cheerleader images have now been posted to the Sonolta.com image galleries. The Sony Alpha A700 did a fine job under the challenging lights of the Rockford MetroCentre at ISO 3200. All photos were made hand held without a flash and the lens used was the Minolta 135 2.8.

Click here to view the Sony a700 cheerleader pictures from March 3, 2008.

Click here to view main page of the Sony photo galleries.

-Sonolta 3-12-2008

Hello folks, I usually prefer to keep all of
the testing, reports, and reviews I do in house,  but in this particular
case I think the results of the Diwa Labs testing warrants me posting links to
those results here. Diwa Labs are the authors of the popular DXO software and
they also do comprehensive testing on a few of the latest camera releases. Diwa is very well respected in the photography industry.

Take a look at the plots below comparing the
Sony A700 to the Nikon D300 in key imaging areas. According to these plots the
Sony A700 is giving some incredible Dynamic Range, and is also besting the Nikon
D300 in Signal-to-Noise Ratio, Tonal Range, and Color Fidelity.

Sony A700 users may or may not be surprised
by the results, but FWIW, the results I have linked clearly do show the Sony A700 is
easily a match for the more expensive and non-image stabilized Nikon D300.

Dynamic Range

A700 Plot ($1300)

http://www.diwa-labs.com/photoalbum/view/?size=org&id=191649

D300 Plot ($1800)

http://www.diwa-labs.com/photoalbum/view/?size=org&id=191587

D3 Plot ($5000)

http://www.diwa-labs.com/photoalbum/view/?size=org&id=198535

Tonal Range

A700

http://www.diwa-labs.com/photoalbum/view/?size=org&id=191639

D300

http://www.diwa-labs.com/photoalbum/view/?size=org&id=191601

Signal to Noise Ratios

Sony A700

http://www.diwa-labs.com/photoalbum/view/?size=org&id=191636

Nikon D300

http://www.diwa-labs.com/photoalbum/view/?size=org&id=191599

Color Fidelity (WB & Exposure corrected)

Sony A700

http://www.diwa-labs.com/photoalbum/view/?size=org&id=191640

Nikon D300

http://www.diwa-labs.com/photoalbum/view/?size=org&id=191595

-Sonolta 01-11-2008