Sony DSLR-A230 User Manual

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Camera Type

Digital Single Lens Reflex 
Camera with built-in flash 
and interchangeable lenses

Lens

All of 

α Lenses

Total pixel number of camera

Approx. 10 800 000 pixels

Effective pixel number of camera

Approx. 10 200 000 pixels

Image format

23.6×15.8 mm (APS-C 
format) Interlace scan 
Primary Color

System

Image sensor-shift 
mechanism

SteadyShot Compensation capability

Approximately 2.5 to 3.5 
EV decrease in shutter 
speed (varies according to 
shooting conditions and 
lens used)

System

Charge protection coating 
on Low-Pass Filter and 
image sensor-shift 
mechanism

System

TTL phase-detection 
system, CCD line sensors 
(9 points, 8 lines with 
center cross-hair sensor)

Sensitivity Range

0 to 18 EV (at ISO 100 
equivalent)

AF illuminator

Approx. 1 to 5 m (3.3 to 
16.4 feet)

Type

Fixed eye-level penta-
Dach-mirror

Field of View

0.95

Magnification

0.83 × with 50 mm lens at 
infinity, –1 m

–1

Eye Relief

Approximately 16.5 mm 
from the eyepiece, 
10.9 mm from the eyepiece 
frame at –1 diopter 
(–1 m

–1

)

Dioptor Adjustment

–2.5 to +1.0 m

–1

Metering Cell

SPC

Metering method

40-segment honeycomb-
pattern

Metering Range

1 to 20 EV (3 to 20 EV 
with Spot metering), (at 
ISO 100 with F1.4 lens)

ISO sensitivity (Recommended 

exposure index)
AUTO, ISO 100 to 3200

Exposure compensation

±2.0 EV (1/3 EV step)

Type

Electronically-controlled, 
vertical-traverse, focal-
plane type