Sony Alpha DSLR-A500

Opinion: Last week i sold my sony A350 and bought the A500.
I'm very happy with the results.
instead of the A350 who's pictures were noisy above iso 200
the pictures from the A500 are noise free and detailed all the way up till iso 1600.
Using the tamron 17-50 lens gives exellent results.
The focus speeds are a litlle faster on the A500 than the A350.
The speed of this camera is so much faster than the A350. Very surprising is the
the sharpness and brightness of the LCD screen from the A500.
Though the resolution isn't higher than that from the A350.
I dunno how sony did this?
The HDR settings work lovely and gives greath results.
Also the new DR settings work well, becouse of the low noise in the pictures
the darker parts of the pictures brichten up very well with less noise and more detaill than the A350 did.
I prefer the sony A500 12 Mp. pictures above the 14 Mp. pictures.
The A500 is nice step up comming from the A350.
The A500 is a good price/ value camera and a fun camera to use.
Well done Sony !
Hans from Holland.

Opinion: Its strengths: DRO (Dynamic Range Optimization) and HDR, Live view with fast auto focus, built-in image stabilization, tilted LCD screen.

I am very happy with this camera. I purchased it one month ago. The A500 has built-in DRO & HDR with adjustable levels, live view with quick auto focus (4 fps with live view), and tilted LCD. These features are very useful for me. The image quality is roughly the same from A500, A700 and Canon Xsi (this my another DSLR). DSLRs from other manufacturers are almost 10x slower when I tested them with Live View. Sony's second sensor makes the big difference.

Opinion: I have used this camera since Dec 20, 2009.

Live View: Ooutstanding and incredibly fast. Much much faster than every other DSLR that I tried.

Face Detection, great for taking pictures of small children

Image Quality: Very sharp at higher ISO settings and under low light.

HDR: Have not played with it that much, but it does do a great job alingning picutures and merging into one photo fairly seamlessly. When shooting under questionable lighting, I will default to the HDR mode. Right now I am playing with how many EVs to use for the 2 shots.

As a new DLSR user, I found this camera to have the features that I wanted at a great price. During the Christmas sale I paid $800 for the A500 and the 18/55 and the 55/200 Sony lenses. Abolutley no regrets!