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Minolta Konica Dimage A1 Digital Camera Review

Review: Minolta Konica Dimage A1 Digital Camera

Simply speaking, Minolta Konica Dimage A1 sports a 3D AF system, which is quite a revolution in digital photography. Dimage A1 allows you to capture blur free and ultra sharp images of any moving subject, by employing its innovative “subject tracking” system, with its 11 selectable special focus points. It is also a first of its kind SLR type of digital camera, featuring the world’s fastest auto focus system with progressive predictive control. Users can also use its efficient anti shake mechanism to avoid blurred and non sharp images even at very high shutter speeds.

From the minute you grip your Dimage A1, you’ll feel assured by its rugged build, easy to grip body and a wide array of functional buttons within your easy reach. As you switch on the “Power On” button, this little beauty zooms into action almost immediately and you are ready to take some amazing pictures, with its full time, quick AF system, which is the fastest among 5X mega pixel SLR type digital cameras. When you slightly press the shutter button, a logical predictive auto focus facility springs into action to capture images, even under most unstable shooting conditions.

The lens is a real beauty with its expansive optical zoom range, including sufficient wide angle coverage, which is ideal for landscapes and architectural images. While the lens provides you the extra edge in the sharpness and contrast, its unique high speed continuous mode assures a fast action shooting of images up to 2.8 frames per second.

If you are a starter in digital photography, you can use camera’s unique auto focus exposure system to capture images of exceptional quality. On the other hand, if you are an advanced shutter bug, Dimage A1’s highly innovative aperture control or the conventional manual control system will allow you to experiment with various shooting conditions. The electronic view finder is an absolute wonder and the view through the finder is as clear as a sharp picture itself.

This camera is a tiny movie camera; some of your most cherished moments can be captured in a movie format, for viewing on your computer or even TV. Its modern technology allows the user to save the image in many file formats like JPEG, TIFF and RAW, which allows you to edit the images on your favorite image software. Storage of image is possible by memory cards or memory sticks, while the inbuilt memory (64MB) can store about 12 high resolution images. You can even shoot a self portrait image by using an efficient self timer.

Recommendation:

Being a SLR type camera, this unique camera is the first among the 5X digital cameras, to enable users to shoot sharp pictures using anti shake, stabilizer mechanism and also by using predictive auto focus facility. The Minolta Konica Dimage A1 is also an intelligent digital camera capable of capturing high resolution images by using its new image processing LSI, which is another additional benefit, not available with any other camera of similar kind. Available under competitive price band, Dimage A1 is a must buy for those who wish to take good pictures at an affordable price.

Features:

5.3 mega pixel CCD

Max resolution: 2568 x 1928 pixels

Lens: f/2.8-3.5 7.2-50.8mm (35mm equiv: 28-200mm)

3D AF w. 11, selectable focus points

Exposure: Programmed AE, Aperture priority, Shutter priority and Manual

Sensitivity: Auto, ISO 100, 200, 400, 800

High Speed continuous advance: max. 2.8 fps

Electronic viewfinder

File formats: JPEG, TIFF, RAW

Movie mode

Storage media: Compact Flash Type I and II, IBM Micro drive