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Sony Alpha A350 Review
| Author | Cliff Smith |
| Published | 10th Jun 2008 |
| Manufacturer | Sony |
| Price | £391.30 (Exc VAT) |
| as reviewed | £449.99 (Inc VAT) |
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TrustedReviews NewslettersOver the next few pages we show a range of test shots. On this page the full size image at the minimum and maximum ISO settings have been reduced to let you see the full image, and a series of full resolution crops have taken from original images at a range of ISO settings to show the overall image quality.
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This is a full-frame image at the minimum sensitivity of 100 ISO.
At 100 ISO the image quality is superb, with no trace of noise.
Still very good at 200 ISO.
At 400 ISO there is a hint of colour speckling in the mid-tone areas that I wouldn't have expected to see.
At 800 ISO noise in the red channel is really becoming a problem.
At 1600 ISO the level of detail is dropping off as noise gets worse.
At 3200 ISO the image quality is actually pretty poor.
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This is the full frame at maximum ISO.
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Gordon said on 22nd September 2008
Alan Martin said on 6th October 2008
Yup - I have one and I love it too.
The supplied 18-70 lens is far superior to anything that Canon provides with the EOS 400D and similar models.
Tim Mason said on 1st December 2008
I bought an a350 earlier this year and took it back to the shop as I was extremely dissapointed with it. The very helpful (indipendant) camera shop assistant spent an hour attachin... more
MrGodfrey said on 29th December 2008
Cliff, can I ask if your assessment of ISO/noise performance (and other aspects of image quality) are based purely on standard Jpeg output, or also on RAW? I ask because the Pentax... more
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