The minolta has stormed onto the market showing off its 5million pixels and 3 times optical zoom whilst maintaining a small shell!
5 million pixels? well each picture is broken down by little dots and stored digitally, these are called pixels, if there isnt enough pixels to fill the picture gaps form between the pixels causing a lack in detail(fuzzyness), so the benefit of 5 is you can have a larger picture!
3x optical zoom? well there is two types of zoom digital and optical what you want to look for is optical zoom that is the lens actually physically zooming that is what you want to look for! all small sized digital cameras have 3x anything larger has 10x.
this camera is very fast at zooming and at focusing i.e. it doesnt mess around for to long, it is also packed with options to change most settings, fully manual program modes like portrait sport etc, flash options.
oh of course this does video as well!!!
A run down of the camera, it’s a 5million pixel camera with 3x optical zoom, 1.5 inch lcd screen. The camera is powered by two AA batteries preferably rechargeable and takes a sd card which is the market norm card at the moment. The camera has many program modes, portrait, sport, night, landscapes and many options like anti-red eye settings for tungsten light and natural light, flash auto always on always off. The lens is a Minolta own with a 3.5-5.6 aperture. Zoom wise the camera does about 35-105mm in zoom. This camera also features a completely manual mode so you can set the aperture shutter speed and focus. Quality settings range from taking a .6million pixel picture to 5, also there is a uncompressed tiff picture format which allows the user to print a very large photograph. Usability, very simple you can learn how to use it without the instruction manual is very simple and easy to learn.
This camera is built in a titanium shell which means it will last a lot longer.
At the price this camera is its exceptionally good value and doesn’t leave much room for competitors
by (82%):
22.02.2004 00:13
Rather short. You never mentioned how much it is.
18.02.2004 21:55
I've rerated this one for you.
18.02.2004 21:42
The Minolta Dimage F200 and 300 are the same camera and only have 1 difference and thats the amount of pixels they have. so they have to have the same detail because there is no other differences. Thanks for the input matt.