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'lack the elegant style typical of so many Sony compacts. '

'Noticeable shutter delay.'

'No AF illuminator'

'Some annoyances include the lousy movie mode, lack of a file numbering system, and poor low light focusing. '

'I don't use live view often, but because all of the competing cameras have this feature, its absence from the DSLR-A700 is quite noticeable.'

'when the light's not so good, capture lag jumps to an unacceptably high 2.2 seconds'

'However, it takes quite a bit of effort to adapt to the S700's design, which ranges from simply odd in places--you increase shutter speed and aperture with the down arrow and decrease them via the up arrow--to downright frustrating in others.'

'Bad manual focus'

'Manual focusing is difficult.'

'You should also try the various cameras so you can see how they fit in your hands, as the R1's unusual design is not for everyone.'

'With most heavy components on the left side, the chunky body is somewhat off-balance.'

'The EVF/LCD is terribly slow in low light, so seeing what's coming in through the lens was difficult.'

'pictures at the maximum ISO 1,600 look very grainy, almost as if you had applied an impressionist art filter in an image-editing program'

'Some softness due to noise.'

'Images shot at ISO 1600 looked noisy.'

'lens distortion.'

'poor high-ISO noise profile.'

'It doesn't include a recharger or rechargeable batteries'

'manual focus is basically useless, since you have no idea as to the current focus distance, and there's no "focus check" feature either.'