Minolta Dimage A1

Minolta Dimage 7

I have been looking for a new Digital Camera and after much deliberation I had decided either on the Fuji Film 6900Z or the Minolta Dimkage 7. Both cameras are around the same specification, both have a 6x+ Zoom and 5+ mega pixels, although the 6900Z is higher it is only 3 mega pixels which are interpolated, see my digital camera review for meaning. The Dimage 7 has a optical zoom of 7.1x and also has a digital zoom of 2x where as the Fuji Film is 6x. The thing which swung me towards the Dimage 7 was not the technical specifications though but the fact that the Dimage 7 takes normal AA batteries and uses Compact Flash memory, where as the Fuji Film uses a non ...

Minolta Dimage 7

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 ...

Minolta Dimage 5

I purchased my Minolta Dimage 5 at Schiphol airport, Amsterdam, and having had about 6 weeks of use, and still not used all the features, although I think I am just about ready to write a review about the camera. Buying at Schiphol took over EUR 200 off the price - EUR 885 instead of EUR 1085 (shop price when I purchased it), although this soon went on two extra 96Mb memory cards. I chose the camera because it had the feeling of an SLR (Single Lens Reflex ? if you don't know what this means then, to put it very bluntly, the Dimage 5 won't be the camera for you!), and I have been the owner of a Minolta SLR for many years, and liked the look of this one more ...