It doesn’t pop up nearly as high: the old version popped up about two inches and was so high it looked odd. The built-in flash unit on the Sony A200 is completely different from its predecessor. It has a 3-inch LCD with an amazing 922,000 pixels that looks much like a television screen. Despite this, Sony seems to hold its best LCD technology for its higher-end model, the Sony A700. The A100’s LCD came out on top of a head-to-head-to-head review with the Nikon D80 and Canon XTi, and the A200’s screen has much better viewing angles and the same great contrast. The Sony A200’s LCD screen is impressive. The A200’s LCD brightness can be adjusted in five steps in the Setup menu.
This feature is also on the older A100, and is quite useful with the A200’s ability to add a vertical battery grip. The A200’s LCD screen has a nice feature that rotates the display on the screen when the camera is held vertically or horizontally.
It also displays the Function, Recording, and Setup menus.
Sony a200 liveview full#
The display button can hide the info or show basic or full info. The LCD can show the following info: Exposure mode, shutter speed, aperture, Flash mode, exposure compensation, ISO, Drive mode, AF area, metering, Focus mode, Color mode, white balance, D-RO mode, battery power, image compression, image size, and number of remaining images on the memory card. The Sony α DSLR-A200’s LCD screen acts as a screen for shooting information when photographers are not reviewing images. The LCD seems to repel fingerprints and wipes clean easily but catches glares in strong lighting, so it isn’t perfect. It can be seen when the camera is held below, but not when held above the head. The A200 makes strides in this area with wider viewing angles from side to side. The A100’s LCD didn’t show very wide angles. The A100’s LCD was hailed as brighter than its competitors, though. That seemed to be last year’s standard: the Nikon D80 and Canon XTi have that size, as well. This is the same resolution found on the A100’s screen, but the A100’s LCD is slightly smaller, at 2.5 inches.
Sony a200 liveview upgrade#
The Sony A200 does upgrade from its predecessor to a Clear Photo LCD Plus. Sony doesn’t seem to be jumping onto this trend with the A200, though. **Many newer DLSRs are incorporating some form of live view on the LCD screen. Overall, the Sony A200’s optical viewfinder is a solid component that improves upon its predecessor with a much smoother and clearer view. The dial is tiny and made of cheap plastic, but only needs to be adjusted every once in awhile. There is a diopter adjustment dial to the upper right of the viewfinder for users who wear glasses.
Sony a200 liveview manual#
It includes focus, image stabilization levels, exposure compensation, shutter speed, aperture, shake warning, shots remaining, flash charge, high speed sync, manual focus, AE lock, and aspect ratio 16:9. There is a horizontal strip along the bottom of the viewfinder that provides information to photographers. It looks a little brighter, although still not as bright as the XTi and D80.
The A200’s optical viewfinder is clear as day. The new A200 seems to have fixed that problem, though. One complaint about the older A100’s optical viewfinder was that it is darker and grainier than its competitors, the Canon Rebel XTi and the Nikon D80. The Sony A200’s viewfinder has an interesting feature borrowed from its predecessor: a sensor below the finder that detects the photographer’s face and then jumpstarts the autofocus system and turns off the LCD screen below so the view in the finder is easier to see. It isn’t hard rubber it’s a soft rubber that gives nicely when squashed by faces. It is nice and large – at least a half-inch – and is cushioned on the top and sides by a rubber eyecup. The optical viewfinder sits just above the LCD screen on the back of the camera. This is typical accuracy for DSLR optical viewfinders: the Canon 40D and Olympus E-510 are among a slew of DSLRs with 95 percent accuracy. The eye-level pentamirror optical viewfinder has 0.83x magnification and is 95 percent accurate. The Sony A200 has the same viewfinder component as the A100.
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