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Another great thing that comes in a small package

Digital camera - 3.2 Megapixel - Optical Zoom: 3 - Digital Zoom: 4x - Weight: 0.1 kg - Flash memory: SD Memory Card - Viewfinder: Optical Viewfinder

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Inspiration can't be contained. Neither can you when your have got the ultimate communication tool. Be it serious work or serious play, the DiMAGE Xt boasts an assortment of highly...
more...functional and expandable features for a host of creative possibilities. You control the action using XR (Extended Recording) Movie. And complete with audio, it lets you capture movie clips until the Memory Card is full. Audio recoding allows you to record anything up to 180 minutes. In addition, 15-second audio captions can be added to previously taken shots, while volume can be controlled during playback. Plus, the handy and reliable SD Memory Card enables you to store your important data.

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Another great thing that comes in a small package

A review by pinklady22 on Minolta DiMAGE Xt
January 23rd, 2004

Author's product rating: Minolta DiMAGE Xt - rated by pinklady22

Picture Quality	Good
Range & Quality of Features	Excellent
Ease of Use	Very Easy
Overall Look & Design	Good
Value for Money	Excellent

Advantages:	ultra compact, turns on quickly, works as a web cam, internal flash with no moving parts
Disadvantages:	Blurry without flash, trouble with action stills .

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

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I've had this camera for nearly a month now and been quite pleased with its performance. With the flash on, the pictures come out perfectly, but sometimes they are a bit washed in daylight settings. Turning off the flash poses a problem: the pictures turn out blurry without use of a tripod to steady the camera.

Overall quality of the pictures is good and there are a variety of settings to increase or decrease the quality, which dramatically changes the amount of pictures that one can store on a memory card. I would reccommend getting a bigger sd memory card than the 16mb included, since it only holds about 20 pictures at 1280x960 at fine quality. A 128mb card (holds 140+ pics) costs only 28-30 pounds.

Despite the camera's extremely compact size, it still has room for loads of features. The viewfinder is plenty big enough to see the writing on the menus and to preview the pictures that one has recently taken. There is even a zoom and scroll features to see the entire picture and view it close up, without it even going blurry.

The camera has a 12x zoom without any moving parts, although I found that I have only found it useful to the 4x optical zoom before the digital zoom kicked it, due to stability issues.

There is also a great "remote camera" feature that makes this camera unique. It allows the camera to function as a webcam that surpasses the quality and smoothness of video compared to other webcams. I've used it with MSN messenger and I know it also works with netmeeting. This feature alone has made this camera worth the investment.

I would recommend this camera to anyone who wants big of quality for little cash.