| Matt Golowczynski |
| (WDC Technical Writer) |
| 18/04/2008 10:16 |
Re: A300
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Thanks for the info Mat & Roger.
IMHO by making it an exclusive Jessops deal Sony may have shot themselves in the foot, who's going to pay jessops £500 for a A300, when you can get a A350 for the same price from elsewhere, surely a lower priced A300 would have increased Sony's coffersAs a person that rarely goes above a 7x5 print the A300 appeals more so than the A350, i also gather the A300's quicker.
I suppose you could compare it to the D40 & D40x, some would say the D40 is better, not only that but there was a significant price difference between the 2.
Will WDC be doing an A300 review, or is there any point ?.
We're not quite sure whether we will be reviewing it as yet, though obviously we'd like to see what differences there are performance-wise from the A350.
As for why anyone would buy it, there is, as you've pointed out, the faster burst rate. Many people have speculated that noise would be better controlled, but having compared the A350 with the A200's 10.2MP sensor, and seen how similar noise control is between the two, I wouldn't be surprised if this wasn't in fact the case.
There's also the case of processing times being different and files sizes being different, but I suppose the main concern would be the overall operational speed.