Our Overall Score:
9.2/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our SONY a5100 Mirrorless Camera with 16-50 mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens review. Here we’ll take a look at a range of the key features, benefits, positives and negatives to help you decide if SONY a5100 Mirrorless Camera with 16-50 mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens is right for you, or if you should be looking for a different product in the DSLR and compact system cameras category.
Latest price search at Currys PC World: £369
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There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like SONY a5100 Mirrorless Camera with 16-50 mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens. In this review we will take the 4 main considerations and look at how they stack up against the competition, be it other products from the same brand, Sony or alternative products in the DSLR and compact system cameras category. The 4 factors that we’re going to explore now are, Quality, Price, Reviews and the overall score.
Quality of SONY a5100 Mirrorless Camera with 16-50 mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens
SONY a5100 Mirrorless Camera with 16-50 mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens scores 8.1/10 for quality in our review.
Quality is a very important factor when it comes to buying any product, but it’s particularly important with DSLR and compact system cameras. It’s never going to be easy to get a real feel for the quality of a product without being able to see or even test it.
This is why it’s so important to read lots of customer reviews, where you will be able to get an understanding from many of the customers of SONY a5100 Mirrorless Camera with 16-50 mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens, just how good it is, in terms of quality. Take your time to read through the reviews looking for specific comments about the quality. It’s worth spending time looking for reviews from customers that have owned the product for some time as that will give you a really good idea of the product’s durability.
Our best advice for checking out the quality is reading reviews, but also use some of these to help you get an idea of the quality:
- Price: The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a good indication as to how good quality you should expect from a product.
- Specification: Check out the specs for SONY a5100 Mirrorless Camera with 16-50 mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens and see how they compare to your expectations and other products.
- Brand: Some brands are known for delivering amazing quality products, it’s a case of trying to find the Rolex equivalent for DSLR and compact system cameras, but at a realistic and reasonable price.
- Previous experience: Have you ever owned any DSLR and compact system cameras? Think about your experience of the product and how good it was. What brand was it? How much was it? What was it made from? All of these can help you when considering your options.
Price analysis
SONY a5100 Mirrorless Camera with 16-50 mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens scores 9.9/10 for price in our review.
Price is normally the most important factor when considering a purchase. Especially when you’re shopping online, it’s really easy for us to shop around now so we can easily compare prices of the same product against many retailers with just a few clicks. In fact here at Review Pros we do that leg work for you, by comparing many different retailers to find you the best price. But price is also a big factor for which product we choose too, not just which retailer.
To give an example, the most expensive product that we found in the DSLR and compact system cameras category was £2819.00, whilst the cheapest we found was £259.00 so there’s a significant variance in the prices that different products are available for. For this reason we always recommend that you set yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a product. It’s easy to get carried away and buying a much more expensive product than you really need, but setting a budget will help to avoid this.
As part of our price analysis we’re going to break the price of SONY a5100 Mirrorless Camera with 16-50 mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens down and compare it and analyse it in the following ways.
- Compare to other products in the same category
- Compare to other products from the same brand
- Compare to other products that fit both of the above (the same category and the same brand)
Prices of products in the DSLR and compact system cameras category
Here we’re going to look at the prices you can expect to pay for products from the DSLR and compact system cameras category. we’re opted to use Currys PC World for this comparison, as they offered the most competitive prices for SONY a5100 Mirrorless Camera with 16-50 mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens.
To start with, we look at the average price of a product in the DSLR and compact system cameras category. This was £918.63 from the 118 products we found in that category. So SONY a5100 Mirrorless Camera with 16-50 mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens actually comes in below average at £369.
We then looked at the most expensive product in the category, which was £2819.00 and the least expensive, which was £259.00. In total we found that of the 118, 107 were more expensive and 9 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as SONY a5100 Mirrorless Camera with 16-50 mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens.
Prices of products from Sony
Next up, we wanted to look at products from the brand, Sony. Again we looked at the average price you can expect to pay for a product from Sony, which was £453.54 of the 318 products we found. So SONY a5100 Mirrorless Camera with 16-50 mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens price is below average for the brand.
The cheapest product we managed to find from Sony was £6.99 with the most expensive coming in at £9999.00.
Prices of products from Sony and in the DSLR and compact system cameras category
Then finally on our price analysis we wanted to dig a little deeper by looking at products from Sony that sit specifically within the DSLR and compact system cameras category.
For this we found that the average price was £1061.95, making SONY a5100 Mirrorless Camera with 16-50 mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens at £369 actually below average price.
Then we looked at the highest priced item that falls under this criteria, the price of this was £1918.00 with the lowest priced item being £369.00. In total there were 19 items that were more expensive and 0 that was less expensive.
Reviews of SONY a5100 Mirrorless Camera with 16-50 mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens
SONY a5100 Mirrorless Camera with 16-50 mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens scores 9.7/10 for customer reviews in our review.
Perhaps one of the most important steps in choosing a product that you’re going to be buying online, is reading reviews. The more reviews you can read the better. Take your time to look through a range of different reviews, both good and bad as these will really give you the best insight into how good SONY a5100 Mirrorless Camera with 16-50 mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens is.
Overall score
SONY a5100 Mirrorless Camera with 16-50 mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens scores 9.2/10 overall in our review.
This part of the review takes the various scores for quality, price and customer reviews and combines them in order to provide you with one simple score to help you determine how good the product is overall. This score can then easily be compared to other products and be used as a benchmark.
There are of course many alternative products from Sony so feel free to take a look at some of the alternatives, but in the meantime check out the many reviews for SONY a5100 Mirrorless Camera with 16-50 mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: SONY a5100 Mirrorless Camera with 16-50 mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens
- Brand: Sony
- Model Number: a5100
- 24.7 megapixelsAPS-C / 23.5 x 15.6 mm CMOS sensorBuilt-in WiFi / NFC3″ tiltable LCD touchscreen6 fps in continuous shooting mode
- EAN: 4905524986815
- Description: Top features:- BIONZ X processor and hyper autofocus for clear and immediate results- Fast Hybrid AF for capturing moving objects and artistic control- Powered zoom lens for great close-ups and expansive landscapes- Tiltable LCD screen opens up your creativity- One-touch function for easy sharing and remote controlBIONZ X for faster image processing Make amateurs and professionals alike envy your photography.Small enough to never leave behind, the Sony a5100 Mirrorless Camera has the BIONZ X data processer for a brain plus a hyper-quick autofocusing system, giving you textures and details in the blink of an eye.Results are evidenced in your travel album of vibrant Canadian autumns and sweeping Boreal skies.Fast Hybrid AFCompatible with Final Cut Pro X and iMovie, the ILCE-5100L is loaded with functions that let you nail difficult shots so you can make the most of your hobbies.That hyper-quick autofocusing system, or Fast Hybrid AF, lets you record moving objects with extreme accuracy for genuinely compelling films. Just press the movie button, and roll.Adjust tracking duration and speed for greater artistic control of your autofocus to capture the splashes of sunlight playing in the room as your child crawls for the first time. Continuous shooting lets you immortalise a horse mid-air, while Eye AF keeps faces in sharp focus if that’s what you’re aiming for.Powered zoom lens The Alpha a5100 comes with a compact powered zoom lens, giving you total control to take close-up portraits and creative shots or expansive landscapes and architectural images of your extensive travels. The lens’s Optical SteadyShot helps you achieve sharp images even when shooting handheld. Tiltable LCD screenIn addition to a discreet and compact size you can take anywhere, this Sony mirrorless camera has a 3″ LCD screen that tilts 180° so you can see what you’re capturing regardless of your position.One-touch functionEven from the opposite end of the planet, you can share your photos with friends and family effortlessly and with zero cable. Simply place the camera against an NFC smartphone or tablet to establish connection, then instantly share photographs and videos as you please.One-touch remote lets you control your camera from your smartphone to snap shots from previously out-of-reach spots, opening up even greater creative possibilities.Picture thisThe decisive moment, that perfect shot, missed because you were waiting for your camera to be ready to take a photo again. But it’s not your camera or your shooting technique – it’s all down to having the right memory card. To prevent that annoying lag when capturing high res images and HD video, opt for a high performance memory card with a fast write speed. Now you can focus on your subject.
- Product ID: 25125455567
