The Sony A77 Review! [Part 5]

Nearing the end of the review, I'll be rearranging the blog once its finished so it'll look more sensible, I never really planned to take this long but it was enjoyable to try out the camera.

As I mentioned, there are things I may have forgotten to mention, like how the memory card compartment only takes one card [either MS or SD] and though I would have loved two slots I'd have to say the build quality is pretty good for the slot, the A33 made me feel something may break if I inserted the MS, with the A77, it felt that it could take it.

Here are RAW samples at full 24MP, imported into PS CS5 at whatever settings the program took it in, I didn't apply any noise reduction using any external program, I just Auto Toned and Contrast the images to make them a bit uniform [was shooting under warm florescent lighting]. The images you see was saved in PNG [lossless]. But due to file size limitation, I had to lower the file size to at most 20mb using an image resizer, cubic at best option, half sized.

ISO 800 [Click to view larger image]

ISO 1600 [Click to view larger image]

ISO 3200 [Click to view larger image]

ISO 6400 [Click to view larger image]

ISO 10000 [Click to view larger image]

And since Blogger doesn't show the full image resolution, here are crops of the image at [what I felt] the point where there was a lot of detail and gradient. Crops are at 600x400 of the original 6000x4000 24mp files and also saved as PND for lossless quality.

ISO 800 Crop [Click to view larger image]

ISO 1600 [Click to view larger image]

ISO 3200 [Click to view larger image]

ISO 6400 [Click to view larger image]

ISO 10000 [Click to view larger image]

The images get decidedly noisier the higher the ISO [naturally] but they are [for me] still quite usable, and being shot in RAW allows greater leeway in terms of noise reduction. I'll let you guys decide on the verdict on this one.

Here's a sample video I was able to manage using the A77, using just different modes [no scenes yet] to show how the quality works in real low light, no professional  assistance or settings/controls.

Following the thought that the Nex improved with the sunset setting, I made a short video on it. ISO 1600, f2.8 and sunset first then standard next. Shot in manual to be able to make do with the darkness so forgive the lack of focus.

Tomorrow, the final segment, the verdict! and a rearrangement of the blog to better suit order in the universe :D