Sony Alpha DSLR-A700 anti-shake The Sony Alpha A700 features built-in stabilisation which works with any lens you attach. Sony claims this Super SteadyShot system has been improved over the A100, and now offers 2.5 to 4 stops of compensation – that’s half a stop more than the A100, which itself claimed half a stop more than the Konica Minolta 5D it was based on. Super SteadyShot is activated using a switch on the back of the A700.
To put this to the test, we fitted our A700 sample with the Sony 16-80mm lens and zoomed-it all the way in to an equivalent of 120mm. We then took a series of photos of a distant building at progressively slower shutter speeds, starting at 1/250 and reducing one stop at a time down to 1/8. The first series was taken without Super SteadyShot, and then repeated with Super SteadyShot switched on. Traditional photographic advice would recommend a shutter speed of at least 1/120 to eliminate camera shake, and indeed without Super SteadyShot enabled, we required a shutter speed of 1/125 to achieve a perfectly sharp result. That’s a good result for the A700 at the given focal length, and below we have crops reproduced at 100% showing the same exposure of 1/15 with and without Super SteadyShot activated.
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Sony Alpha DSLR-A700 features
Lenses and viewfinder / Screen and menus / Sensor and processing / Anti dust / Anti shake
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