Finally after waiting over a month my new camera arrived tuesday. As I work in during the week I have no time to get it until Saturday. Now I have my hands on it I have to read the extensive manual and play around with the camera. It is my very first digital single-lens reflex camera (DSLR) ever and I have no clue about filters. The salesman said I at least need a UV filter and explained to me how the most basic functions work. Well, functions, I now can break and setup the camera 
. Unfortunately another project is consuming an huge part of my freetime. It’s fun but kinda much with the daily work around… You can find some pictures of the camera if you read on. For now I remains as inactive as I these weeks. Bear with it for a while.
The Sony Alpha 500 camera has an automatically High dynamic range imaging (HDR) function which shoots 2 shots almost directly next to each other. They will be combined into a more contrast having picture. To summarize HDR, HDR combines the details of a darkened picture with that of an lightened picture. Together they make up the lost details both settings have and enrich each other. HDR is a became very popular the last years and as a starter, I really like the automatic function .
Obviously the camera can save the picture in RAW format, which is an unmodified version of your photo saved into a binary image file. Common JPEG files apply a white balance, filtering, histogram equalizing etc… Regarding holiday photo’s this is indeed a great tool as you can directly print and view your photo’s. However, if you keep on pushing the edge and want to decide all of the filters yourselves, you require RAW.
Amazing speeds with 5 frames per second let you shoot a motion pictures effortless. We will see… At the moment my figures do not run away, but you never know. The high ISO 12800 is a more stunning feature and I do hope the noise is reduced much better than it do with my current camera (Koday 1093IS) which by the way is not a DSLR (to remind you Sony is my first DSLR ever).
I’ve chosen Sony Alpha 500 because of it’s auto HDR function, CMOS sensor, easy sharping different objects in live view (not seeker) and obviously I have heard so many good stories. Testimonials seems to do the trick here once again. Now I still need an hour for the battery to be completely loaded and I may finally start expressing myself.
