A57 or A65

NPPhoto said:

I did find it on the A57 preview but not in the A65 review.

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Don't you have that backwards? The A65 does have it.

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Tom

Look at the picture, not the pixels

http://www.flickr.com/photos/63683676@N07/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25301400@N00/

I think he means the A57 has 'Clear View' in the preview, obviously the A65 doesn't mention it because it doesn't have it..

The Clear View is not quite the same as the TC 1.5/2x in the A65/77 which is a pure simple crop thing from what I've read/am seeing. Iin terms of the technology used Clear view is supposed to be a more intelligent database pattern look up thingie.. be interesting to see if it's effective, you can't make up real pixels easily, but you can have a good guess at what would normally be there so I expect it to add 'detail', just not necessary what was actually there in real life!

tbcass said:

NPPhoto said:

I did find it on the A57 preview but not in the A65 review.

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Don't you have that backwards? The A65 does have it.

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Tom

Look at the picture, not the pixels

http://www.flickr.com/photos/63683676@N07/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25301400@N00/

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Sorry, I thought we were talking about lens corrections.
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Tom

Look at the picture, not the pixels

http://www.flickr.com/photos/63683676@N07/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25301400@N00/

philbot said:

That is a tough choice! I suspect that saving $200 is quite a valid choice considering the very good performance of the A57.

For some more considerations:

My three immediate 'handling' bugbears when I've picked up an A55 in store have been
1. Small EVF - Luckily this is addressed so not an issue on the A57

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Which cameras have you been using? Full frames film or DLSR? The A55 had the biggest viewfinder of all APS-C cameras untill the A65/A77 came along.

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2. Small body size - Again sorted in the A57

3. The EVF uses colour/field sequential rendering, i.e. blue then red the green images in quick sucesssion, if you pan around I can see the slightly weird effect this creates (I believe the same as 'rainbows' in DLP projectors) - The A57 still uses this method, so I'd like to see one in the flesh.

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Cool I will try that to get psychedelic effects; I have not noticed it but I guess like most people I don't tend to swirl around with cameras attached to my eyes; I normally look and see with my eyes and then frame with camera.

Frenske said:

philbot said:

That is a tough choice! I suspect that saving $200 is quite a valid choice considering the very good performance of the A57.

For some more considerations:

My three immediate 'handling' bugbears when I've picked up an A55 in store have been
1. Small EVF - Luckily this is addressed so not an issue on the A57

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Which cameras have you been using? Full frames film or DLSR? The A55 had the biggest viewfinder of all APS-C cameras untill the A65/A77 came along.

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I was stating that in terms of A65 to A55, not absolute.. lets face it, every APS-C viewfinder could do with being bigger! I'm not saying the A55 is unusable, but when you switch between the two cameras (A65/55) it stands out as being inferior

Frenske said:

Frenske said:

2. Small body size - Again sorted in the A57

3. The EVF uses colour/field sequential rendering, i.e. blue then red the green images in quick sucesssion, if you pan around I can see the slightly weird effect this creates (I believe the same as 'rainbows' in DLP projectors) - The A57 still uses this method, so I'd like to see one in the flesh.

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Cool I will try that to get psychedelic effects; I have not noticed it but I guess like most people I don't tend to swirl around with cameras attached to my eyes; I normally look and see with my eyes and then frame with camera.

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I think the notion of panning around or 'tracking' subjects whilst looking through the viewfinder is very common.. And the 'rainbow' effect can be very evident on the A55, it certainly is something you could live with (presuming you aren't overly sensitive to rainbows, see DLP projector users, they are sat captively looking at the screen, it still causes some people lots of grief), but you do notice it and ideally it is preferable to not have that occuring..

I sense you think I was trying to deride the A55, I'm not, it's a great camera in it's own right, but when you 'compare' side by side, obviously larger viewfinder/no side effects is going to be a preferable..

I thought so too.. Does the A57 do lens corrections?