Konica Minolta DiMAGE A200

Although Konica Minolta have now ceased making cameras, there are still a few of these around (and warranty/service has been handed over to Sony). The A200 is the last of KM bridge mount digital cameras in the pro-sumer market. It has a 8m pixel CCD and 28 to 200 (35mm equivalent) manual zoom lens - much better than a motor driven lens which tend to have noticeable "stops". Although fairly big (not quite as big as a D-SLR) and quite heavy, the range ...
...a number of programme modes in between means that you get pretty much all the benefits of a D-SLR in a smaller, more convenient package. It's no pocket camera however. A number of items standout:- the excellent quality lens (which has very little barrel distortion or vignetting) and which can take both wide-angle and telephoto adaptors the multi angle display which makes self portraits (with remote) or taking pictures from unusual angles (like above ...

psilk 22.08.2006 · Read full review
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I have found this camera is very simple to use with a clear manual. Pictures which I mainly shoot at 'fine' quality with auto focusing are technically excellent. However, I find manual focusing difficult on this camera as the viewfinder only provides digital image and the digital manual focus seems quite imprecise. I have found the processing time on this camera to be so much faster than other cameras I have used although when using flash the delay ...

AATommo 05.06.2006 · Read full review
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