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The Minolta Dimage 7 isn't a brand new camera (it's been around since about July 2001), but it's worth mentioning as they crop up second-hand a fair bit these days. It's original price in the UK was a staggering £999, but typically expect them to go for around £300 now on Ebay.
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Advantages: Lots of professional features Disadvantages: Auto focus, battery life
...semi-pro.
The Minolta Dimage 7 isn't a brand new camera (it's been around since about July 2001), but it's worth mentioning as they crop up second-hand a fair bit these days. It's original price in the UK was a staggering £999, but typically expect them to go for around £300 now on Ebay.
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Let me start by saying, this is no camera for the novice. If you're the point n click type person, you might as well stop reading right now. OK, so if you are still reading then I'm assuming you treat your photography quite seriously, you may even class yourself as a semi-pro.
The Minolta Dimage 7 isn't a brand new camera (it's been around since about July 2001), but it's worth mentioning as they crop up second-hand a fair bit these days. It's original price in the UK was a staggering £999, but typically expect them to go for around £300 now on Ebay.
Even for it's age, the features of this camera are impressive. A 5.24Megapixel CCD outputting a 2560 x 1920 pixel image. Add this to the 28-200mm lens (7x optical), full manual settings and potential to store up to 1Gb of data in JPG,TIFF or RAW format, it is a powerful machine. Storage can either be via Compact Flash cards (types I and II) or an IBM Microdrive, and it'll connect up to your computer using the USB standard. The original package came only with a 16Mb Compact Flash card - extremely mean, so I'm using two additional 256Mb cards (price around £35 each).
It's a good looking camera, this isn't just my opinion, others have passed comment when using it. It's also a very daunting looking camera, with all manner of dials and buttons located around the die cast magnesium alloy body. It's heavy (over half a kilo), and feels extremely solid, it looks like it'll withstand a beating or a few drops, although I've not tried it yet. The full colour electronic viewfinder which can swivel 90 degrees can detect your eye looking through it, and automatically turn on or off - as well as switch off the LCD monitor if you want. On the top is a LCD display panel (backlit when needed), which gives you important information such as remaining shots, battery life and all the various settings such as exposure and so on. This display is replicated in both the EVF and the colour back display.
To one side is a door giving access to the card slot, and also the mini-usb cable socket. The battery compartment is on the back, which is very secure, no chance of it opening accidentally. The sockets on the back are covered with plastic plugs, when opened provide power, video out and remote facilities. There's no power adapter supplied as standard, but these can be bought for £30 or so, I'd say it's almost essential to have one especially for transferring images, which can drain batteries. Underneath is a metal tripod mount, pretty standard.
Whilst this could be a very lengthy review, I'll try and condense it a little, touch on it's strengths and weaknesses, and throw in some essential technical details too, rather than re-writing it's hefty printed user guide (which I seem to have mis-laid anyway).
Image Quality As mentioned earlier, this is essentially a 5 megapixel camera, offering 2560x1920, 1600x1200, 1280x960 or VGA 640x480. The inclusion of the TIFF and RAW formats in addition to the usual JPG mean that phoot quality is not compromised by compressing your shots. Of course you can still use JPG compression, and 3 levels are available. I'd suggest using the camera in full auto mode first of all, and work form there. The professional options are massive - they just take a lot of learning, but once mastered the images that can be captured will be as good as you believe they should be.
Useful features Zoom - an extremely powerful 7x Optical zoom, which really lets you get close to the action. The zoom is on the barrel of the camera, as in a 35MM, and so traditional photographers should take to this like a duck to water. Wide angle is provided at the other end of the scale, and images taken in this way suffer very little barrel distortion. A 2x digital zoom is also provided, but I'd always recommened leaving this to post image manipulation.
Exposure modes As well as full manual mode, the camera can be set to Aperture Priority or Shutter Priority, as well as pre-sets such as Portrait, Sports, Sunset, Night and Text.
Image enhancement Sharpness, colour saturation and contrast as all provided, as well as a B&W mode. I'd still suggest that these functions left to post-capture, as they are more controllable using Photoshop and the like. White balance can be left at auto or set to any of Daylight, Tungsten, Fluorescent or Cloudy - you can also fine tune this in the custom mode. I'd suggest leaving this at auto, if you are using the RAW format, as white balance can be corrected on the PC with instant results.
Focus - both manual and automatic. The auto focus is perhaps something which lets the camera down, for it's price it should be ultra fast, but it is slow, sometimes taking more than a second to lock in. I've also found that the focus is far from perfect in many a situation, often leading to out-of-focus images. Although the large 1.8inch TFT screen and the Electronic viewfinder provide a reasonable guide, it's still a lucky guess to tell if the focus is perfect, either in auto or manual focus. When taking close-ups in low light, I'd recommend the use of a tripod for sure. As for macro, it's suggested minimum focal length is around 13cm, and while this isn't terribly close in this day and age, it's been clsoe enough for most applications.
Shutter speed - 1/2000sec - 4 sec, plus a 30 second bulb setting are available. In normal use, this range is adequate for most situations from fast action shots to low light indoor work. The inclusion of a bulb setting is great for experimenting in long exposure times to achieve some stunning and interesting visual effects.
Flash - Both a built in pop up flash is provided, plus a hot-shoe for an external unit. Whilst I haven't had the need to use an external flash yet, it's something I'll consider adding soon, and should really make indoor posed shots for instance a lot easier to deal with. Flash modes are pretty standard, including red-eye reduction (works well), slow sync, fill in and auto. The built in flash is effective up to about 3 metres. Flash can be fine tuned using flash compensation control.
Self timer - as with all cameras these days, a self timer of 10 seconds allows you to include yourself in the picture. A remote control socket is also provided for even simpler control.
Movie clips - I don't consider it important to include the ability to shoot video on a camera, but for those who do, 60 second videos can be recorded at a basic resolution of 320 x 240 pixels, the file format used is AVI. There is no microphone on this camera, so movies are silent.
Battery life - Rather than opting for Lithium type batteries, Minolta decided to stick with more traditional AA's. Although you can use standard AA's, a few shots life is hardly much fun on your pocket, so Ni-MH are the way to go. These are reasonably priced and can generall be charged 1000 times or so, The battery life though is poor compared to many other digitals. On a full charge of four Ni-MH batteries, don't expect to get more than 80 shots or so - and that's being generous. It's therfore essential to invest in extra sets, although the constant charging can become a pain if you are using the camera daily.
File sizes An uncompressed TIFF will be over 14Mb, and a RAW file, just under 10Mb. A JPG with lowest compression will be around 2Mb, and with highest compression just over 500k.
More features ISO 100-800, Time lapse, data imprinting, continuous shooting, auto bracketing, exposure compensation, custom setting memories, DPOF printing, slideshow playback, image copying, power saving, four language menus, folder creation....As said earlier, I've really glossed over everything quickly, there is a lot more to talk about but it would bore you.
Software The camera comes with the Minolta Dimage Viewer Utility. This is the typical kind of software which comes with digital cameras these days. It provides the functions to transfer images from the camera to the computer, as well as perform rotation and image enhancements. The software is also used to convert RAW files into TIFF or JPG.
Conclusion certainly enough powerful professional features, and most importantly wonderful quality images, which can be enlarged and printed up to A3 with no obvious pixellation. At it's original price, I'd have probably looked elsewhere, due to the slow auto focus and battery hungry issues, but on the second hand market, surely a good buy if you want more than just a point n click.
Advantages: Bucketloads of features Disadvantages: Eats batteries
Minolta have consistently pitched themselves at the high-end of photography, typically marketing themselves as the 'semi-pro' brand of choice for the discerning snapper.
Although a seven year old design, the Dimage 7 is still a highly capable system, offering features which would still be considered innovative by current standards.
The Dimage 7 was a serious attempt at bringing high specification digital photography to the well-to-do masses. In ... ...an only halfway decent lens and very little by way of 'proper' controls and would set you back a couple of hundred quid. In contrast, this offered a generous (at the time) 5Megapixels, excellent optics, and a highly usable focal range equivalent on 35mm to the 28mm-200mm optical zoom.
By current standards it's pretty big, almost the size of a 35mm SLR, the styling is 'futuristic' - ie now dated, but that's more than made up for by way of the range ...
dobieg 11.10.2008
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Minolta DiMAGE 7
Advantages: Excellant quality pics,lots of functions,easy to use. Disadvantages: Batteries last about 20 mins if your lucky,Power pack was 50 pounds from jessups.
When i bought my minolta dimage 7 camera it was about 800 pounds and to be honest it is not really worth 800 pounds,its a nice looking camera with lots of different functions but theres so many cameras on the market today its hard to differenciate one digital camera from another.I think the price has come down to about 600 pounds now.try Dealtime.co.uk and search away.
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You can take pictures of about 5 different sizes without losing the excellant ... ...the only reason that i would take a lower quality picture is if i were taking pictures to use on the pc or internet,for printing i would take at best quality.Theres different settings for different types of weather ,if it is cloudy or sunny,indoor or outdoor.You can use this camera as a fully automatic camera or without all of the functions to get different effects,maybe to focus on something in particular.It has a manual optical zoom lense x7 200 ...
Markybee0 13.09.2004
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Advantages: Quality, Scope and Versatility Disadvantages: negligible
...However, since I got the Minolta my photography has been revolutionised. It has a wide range of controls for manual to auto most things! In fact I have not found the need to use the RAW or Super Fine quality settings very often. The results from fine quality mode has been so surprisingly good. One small point is the vignetting that cuts the far corners of the frame in wide angle 28mm mode, but it's very slight.
Sure it uses much battery power and ...
Pastorbob 09.10.2002
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Advantages: Facilities, excellent build and feel Disadvantages: Slow Auto Focus, no external flash socket
I have bee a 35mm freek for some years. My first Digital camera was the Dimage 2.3 meg pixel. i must say i was disappointed with this model as i spent most of the time making the images what they should have looked like. then i cought the Dimage 7 in a magazine. I went and bought this camera without reading any reviews at all. I must say its a cracker. Yes it heavier on batteries and the auto focus can be a bit hit and miss, but i don't photograph ... ...is away around it by switching the autofocus off and focus using the Focus ring at the base of the lens. The facilities onboard, make sure that you get the best out of this camera. The lense is first class. I have had some excellent picture from it, even at low resolution. Another facility i find useful is the different meter options, try using these, as different method produce different exposures. Please note that a camera meter think every thing ...
Grumpyglenn 01.02.2003
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Advantages: Great resolultion, zoom Disadvantages: Autofocus not too quick
This camera is top quality, one I purchased with the high specifications and incredible zoom in mind.
After looking for a long time for a camera with a decent zoom function, out of the few I found the DiMage7 came up top for picture quality and features - all options can be set to either automatic or manual, with intermediary settings for semi-auto available on most operations as well.
The only downfall I've found so far is the auto-focus. It's ... ...by any means. It will keep up with other cameras in it's league, and if you can make the extra investment then version 7i is available with improved auto-focus capabilities.
Other cameras of similar price can't touch it's zoom or picture quality - you really have to spend a lot of money to beat this camera.
The look and feel of this camera is sturdy and professional - you feel a sense of pride when carrying this monster of technology around! ...
moof 18.10.2002
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Advantages: A light, easy to use, full of features and semi-professional camera Disadvantages: Battery life and electronic viewfinder
I bought my Minolta Dimage 7i about 3 years ago, but only started getting really acquainted with it about a year and a half later.
I was travelling a lot and I prefer to use film cameras when I travel and for "serious" photographic work, as I provide a couple of Photo Libraries with images, and most of them still prefer slides, although many do accept digital images of high quality and resolution.
A big reason for not using it more often at first was my unfamiliarity with digital cameras prior to my purchasing the Dimage 7i, but the main reason is the fact that I still prefer the colour intensity of my Fuji Velvias and Provias.
I started using the Dimage 7i more and more for practical reasons: it is so light (608g with batteries - dimensions are 117 x 91 x 113mm, which is 4.6 x 3.6x 4.5 in) compared to the SLRs I am used to ...
Advantages: Strong lens, quick focus, good feature set, great customer service Disadvantages: Some grain on areas of flat colour, eats non-rechargeable batts quickly!
Have had this camera a couple of weeks now and am getting to grips with it. The first thing to strike me was the quality of the lens. The zoom is excellent (equiv 28mm-200mm). Picture quality is very good, up to 2560 x 1900 (or whatever the factor of 1024 x 768 is). At highest res these TIFF files can hit 14MB each, although the less compressed Minolta-specific RAW format is only 7MB. Dropping to the second highest resolution ("Fine" as opposed to "Superfine" or "RAW") brings filesizes down drastically (about 1MB). The RAW files can only be viewed with the supplied software - TIFFs and JPEGS (the lower resolutions) can go straight into Photoshop or whatever. Connecting the camera to a PC via USB is straightforward with XP.
Once you have the pictures on a PC you can appreciate the fine detail therein. The only weakness I have ...
KungFuJoe 14.08.2002 (12.01.2003)
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Advantages: Great quality pictures, lots of good features, stylish looking. Disadvantages: A little expensive, drains batteries for fun and a very hard to fathom instruction manual.
My next door neighbour recently bought a new digital camera for his computer and so he didn't need his old one anymore.
His old one was a Minolta Dimage 7Hi camera retailing at nearly £500. When he offered me this camera for £150 I naturally snapped it up.
The camera is black and quite chunky to look at and it does look very expensive. It is well built and fairly heavy for a digital camera but what does it work like?
Well after taking plenty of photo's in different light variations of most of my family, I found the photo and light quality to be of the highest quality.
The built in flash makes short work of any dark shadowy places and the camera takes care of unusually light photo's as well.
It has a picture quality of 2560 x 1900 and a 7 x zoom of 200mm.
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The DiMAGE 7 is the crystallization of Minolta's all-out effort in the synthesis of its developments in digital image processing and its strengths in high-quality optical technology. With the boom in the world's digital camera market, consumers want digital products to perform under a wide range of conditions with functions that supply high-quality results. The Information-Technology Revolution has made digital cameras a common tool for the average computer user. Users are now able to capture, process, and display images in a way that was limited to only a select group of professionals. Creative photographers, who have been brought up with traditional silver-halide cameras, are also expected to look for digital cameras with comprehensive control and high image quality. Both computer users and photographers have wanted to explore creative digital imaging; they want to manipulate images in the camera as well as develop their imaging skills. However, today's digital camera market has yet to provide them with a tool to do this. Minolta's new digital cameras fully meet such consumer demands. The DiMAGE 7 shares Minolta's new technological developments designed to provide high-quality images as well as a wide array of digital functions for creative photography. Built around a state-of-the-art optical system with a high-resolution CCD and high-quality 7X zoom, and supported by a high-speed LSI chip, and high-performance autofocus and autoexposure system, the Minolta CxProcess image processing further enhances picture quality. The Digital Hyper Viewfinder offers flexible, intuitive handling and diverse viewing options. The DiMAGE 7 is equipped with a 2/3-type CCD with a total of 5.24 million pixels; the highest available resolution in consumer digital cameras. This allows impressive printouts of camera images on A3-size paper at 150 dpi, and A5-size paper at 300 dpi. The optical centerpiece in the DiMAGE 7 is a new all-glass Minolta GT LENS. Applying Minolta's expertise in designing and manufacturing professional SLR lenses, the DiMAGE's lens is an advanced ƒ/2.8 - ƒ/3.5 apochromat zoom. It uses AD (anomalous dispersion) glass and aspheric elements to provide sharp, bright images at all focal lengths. The Minolta GT LENS ensures high-quality results for each model.
Brilliant Photographs. Excellent Value For Money. Feels Great In The Hands. 
