Konica Minolta Digital Camera Reviews

"Full manual controls Hot shoe (though limited to Minolta flashes) Supports wide-angle conversion lens Fabulous movie mode: 800 x 600 and 640...Above average purple fringing; images seem fuzzy/noisy at times Low light focusing wasn't great;...While it's not the smallest or lightest camera of the bunch, the Z2 is still right up there...The DiMAGE Z2 has a brand new Minolta GT lens...This helps the camera focus quickly in good light...Focusing..." read more »

"The DiMAGE X60 is a slim, stylish and fast 5 megapixel digital camera featuring a large 2.5-inch LCD monitor, fastest-in-class startup time, 3x optical zoom with automatic Macro and Super Macro capability, Automatic Digital Subject Program Selection, and 15MB of internal memory...With its non-protruding zoom lens, the compact DiMAGE X60 is ready in an instant -- thanks to the approximately 0.5-second startup time -- to take those spur-of-the-moment shots and ensure that you never miss a desired photo...The DiMAGE X60's 5-megapixel CCD and proprietary Konica Minolta CxProcess™ III image processing technology combine to provide photographers with high quality images-- pictures that reproduce the natural colors as faithfully as they see them with their own eyes...Connect the DiMAGE X60 directly to any PictBridge compatible printer using a USB cable for easy, on-the-spot digital printing without using a PC..." read more »

"Compact and ergonomic design, ?true...28-200mm F2.8, 7x optical zoom lens, great image quality and manual features....Slow AF and camera can fire before focus is properly achieved without care taken when using the sensitive...The A200 is a compact high resolution digital camera that features a comprehensive spec, plenty of manual control and Konica Minolta's superb CCD Anti Shake system for reducing camera shake at slow shutter speeds...On the positive side,..." read more »

"12X zoom lens; Anti-Shake image stabilization; broad feature set; extremely close macro focus; flexible continuous-shooting modes; compact SLR-style body....Subpar EVF; less-than-stellar photo quality; movie mode downgraded to 320x240 resolution....Konica Minolta Dimage Z6 Ratings...Digital cameras User Opinions......" read more »

"First 2 Megapixel Camera Phone in the US, Panasonic Lumix FX8, Konica Minolta E500, TIPA Awards...Sprint and Samsung have announced the availability of the first 2 megapixel camera phone in the US...Panasonic announced the introduction of the Lumix FX8..." read more »

"The high-performance and compact four-megapixel Konica Minolta DiMAGE G400 features 3x optical zoom lens, sleek metal exterior, autofocusing, autoexposure, auto white-balance, and is ready to go at a moment's notice thanks to an impressive 0.7-second startup time...The DiMAGE G400 features a 4.2 megapixel CCD for sharp, clear pictures as well as a 3x GT Hexanon optical zoom lens incorporating seven elements in six groups to provide sharp, high-contrast images...In fact, the Konica Minolta DiMAGE G400's rapid startup (0.7 seconds) and fully- automatic picture taking and shut down cycles in only 1.5 seconds...The DiMAGE G400 has the technology needed to capture any photographic moment...And the camera's color-balance function allows users to change the relative proportions of the red, green, and blue to shift the overall color of an image..." read more »

"The G500's five-megapixel CCD stretches the limits of this poster as a test target...Even though the poster was made from a 500MB scan of a 4x5 negative shot with a tack-sharp lens, the G500 is close to extracting all the detail that's to be found here...Excellent resolution and detail, with a good dynamic range and nearly accurate color...This is my ultimate "resolution shot," given the infinite range of detail in a natural scene like this, and the G500 picks up a lot of fine detail throughout the frame..." read more »

"The Minolta DiMAGE S414 is a full feature 4 megapixel camera at $399...The DiMAGE S414 is equipped with a Minolta GT apochromatic zoom lens...The lens focuses down to 4 inches for extreme close-ups...daylight, cloudy, tungsten, and fluorescent, can be selected and for critical control over color, the custom setting allows the camera to be calibrated to the lighting conditions at the scene which is quite useful when a mixture of lighting types are illuminating the scene..." read more »

"You can see why Konica Minolta have restricted the sensor in the DiMAGE X1 to a rather limited ISO range of 50-200...Thankfully the Konica Minolta DiMAGE X1 offers an anti-shake system that should allow you to use ISO 50 for more photographs than you would normally use that speed (see results below...The Konica Minolta DiMAGE X1 produced images of average quality during the review period...The 8 megapixel sensor used in the Konica Minolta DiMAGE X1 may result in larger images, but it comes at the cost of noisy images even at the slower ISO settings..." read more »

"The DiMAGE X31 has a 3x, 4.7-14.1mm lens, the equivalent of a 36-108mm lens on a 35mm camera...Although I always remind readers that digital zoom always decreases the overall image quality because it simply enlarges the central pixels of the CCD's image...In addition to the basic exposure options, the DiMAGE X31 also offers a few extra shooting modes, accessed through the settings menu...Unlike the X20, the X31 has no microphone, and so cannot record voice memos...The DiM AGE X31 stores its images on an SD memory card, and an 16MB card accompanies the camera..." read more »