Sony SLT-A35

I love this camera, its light for travelling, offers great image quality and has decent ISO.

Good as a point and shoot but not a serious camera. With the kit lens not capable of producing images that competitors in the same price range from Canon or Nikon will produce.

Very good camera Problems: Just after I bougth it I noticed a problem in the LCD. A black spot. Since I live in Brazil can't use de warranty.

I bought and heavily use an HX100V super zoom, and that positive experience led me to buy an SLT-A35 kit. I have been most intrigued by the auto HDR feature set, including the multi-frame noise reduction where a short fast series of images are "stacked" such as is done in astrophotography. Just for fun, I walked out in the driveway and shot Orion's Belt in the overhead night sky using the 75-300 kit lens. This handheld shot rather severely tests the image stabilization and noise ...