Someone wrote a detailed review on A200.
http://photoclubalpha.com/2008/02/14/sony-alpha-200-review/

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Added on February 15, 2008, 4:16 pmIn the meantime, we have no hesitation in switching from A100 to A200. Image quality is everything; it's like moving from old High Speed Ektachrome 160 E4 to the later Ektachrome 400 E6 in one step. Your DSLR is really like your film, not like your cameras of the past. Once you could upgrade your quality when Fuji introduced Velvia, or Kodak invented T-grain; same camera, new film, better images. Now you change the DSLR body instead and you never think about what those thousands of exposures would once have cost you in film. The Alpha 200 is in practice a big improvement over the Alpha 100 and nearly a match for the Alpha 700 at ISO speeds 400-1600, without any visible issues like 'watercolour' noise-reduction processing effects.

I will deal with photo samples from the Alpha 200 later. We have only had the camera for a week, and a working week mainly spent indoors despite the sunshine; even sunny days don't mean that much when the landscape is still midwinter and the most scenic winter areas are four hours' drive away, with all of Scotland's usual guarantee of near-darkness and belting rain when you finally get there! It may take a month or so to get a feel for what the camera does best. In the meantime, it does 3200 ISO at night pretty effectively:

That's a 3200 ISO in-camera JPEG with NR turned on and the inset is a 100 per cent view, no post-processing used. Alpha 100 owners will be fully aware why the 200 is better on seeing this.

This post has been edited by gogo2: Feb 15 2008, 04:19 PM

The reason so many people buy A200 is because of the price. Without price advantage, I don't see anyone will buy Sony

Yup. Its the best price per feature currently. Weirdly, the price is very low only in Malaysia.
I heard other country still quite expensive.

yeap, go to Sg Wang and search around. I heard something like Boeing and Tarita. Do refer back a few pages earlier on this.

No way I will trade low noise with other feature. The reason we get dSLR is because of low noise.

A100 is a big no no.

but this might mean over research. in the end, u keep on researching for the perfect camera
instead of taking good photo... LOL

FF is always on my mind...

Actually the biggest talker is me. Don't grab my place..

albnok, will u come to teach us all orange camp newbie how to better utilize Alpha camera during TT?

Not only you. I also realise that Sony is winning everything.....if you got trading account in US, buy a lot of Sony share.

can I know if this is only for Minolta/Sony user? are u guys professional photographer or just hobbyist?

Yeah a lot of Nikon supporter here. My boss also got D300.

wat model they use? all 1dmk3 ar?

Like that ar. Then I better buy Canon 40D so that I can go in and pretend as Media....

50mm F1.4 if you take portrait especially indoor. If not, then no need to buy. I don't find any use at all

And I see u like sports. I believe certain sports need tele. So 70-300 APO is necessary.

I dunno why 16-105 mm lens or the Sony 18-250 mm can poison you.

Wow, great information. Yeah, wedding needs 50mm F1.4. I forgot wedding is indoor with low light...

is 2mm really that big different? can insert how many people more?

Have you tried Komtar? vladimir should give a better price since he know about KL price. Also, in his thread, he claim he sell so much cheaper than other seller

Tarita or Boeing in Sg Wang?

Its important. It is how big the viewfinder and is it can see everything. If you can't see properly and see everything, its harder to take photo.

How about Olympus E3? Its 100% magnification