How does Sony, being relatively new to DSLRs, compare to Canon and Nikon?

How does Sony, being relatively new to DSLRs, compare to Canon and Nikon?

This link will not only answer your question, but include the other dSLR camera makers as well

http://bythom.com/2011predictions.htm

Some say good others say not so.

I can tell you one thing. I'm a Canon guy and I've been on this forum for around 4 plus years. I have to see one write up about a Canon dslr unless it was damage say to the screen, had been dropped or other wise mis used - never a problem because the camera quit.

Actually, Sony ISN'T new to DSLRs. Sony took over Minolta cameras, one of the oldest brands. Minolta introduced a consumer priced DSLR in the Maxxum/Dynax 5D introduced in 2004. Minolta also made a range of bridge cameras in the early 2000s, one of which the Dimage 7i I'm still using. It even has a metal body!

As has already been posted Sony bought out Konica-Minolta around 2006 (not just it's camera arm but everything, photocopiers etc).

Even before that date Sony an Minolta had been working together on a couple of new cameras which eventually appeared as the Sony DSLR-A100 and DSLR-A700 (the 7 probably having been picked to
portray it's linage to Minolta's Dynaxx/Maxxum 7D).

As to how do the camera's perform: Sony's offerings can be a little "left field" as they don't have to keep the sort of hard core following happy in the way that Canon and Nikon do. If you dig under the skin though you'll find most (not all) Nikon's use Sony sensors, and some of Nikon's Exspeed processors are little more than custom versions of Sony's Bionz processors. Even Canon, who fabricate their own sensors and processors have cameras in their current range that use Sony built sensors (though not the image processors).