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The A200 Has Arrived And It's A Beauty!

Started Oct 4, 2018 | Photos thread
Michael Fritzen Veteran Member • Posts: 6,741
Re: The A200 Has Arrived And It's A Beauty!

Hi,

traded in my trusty A2 in 2012 so I'm not sure anymore whether the two "sisters" A2 and A200 had a AS switch on their back or not (I'm sure the 7D had). If there is I'd suggest to simply switch it off and keep it off to avoid further problems with an AS, if it suffers a total fail with the sensor in some off position, wouldn't make the cam unusable.

From what I remember the A2's AS hadn't much of a positive effect - but it draw the batteries empty pretty much faster. As long as your exposure time is right hardly need for it, always remembering that AS (or SSS as Sony named it later) has no effect on subject movement at longer exposure times. And I'd advice to stay at or close to base ISO because ISO200 is already pretty bad and ISO400 much worse.

BTW I'm wondering a bit another poster liking Minolta's JPG engine...well no doubt about something special Minolta look in the colours. But the JPG engine of either the A2 and the 7D which I owned was not their strong side. Better results when working on RAWs though.

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Cheers,
Michael Fritzen

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