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Summary: I Love it!
Review: I love this camera. I also bought a 128Mb Memory card. And the first weekend I took 197 photos. Anyway you'll need to buy a extra battery I took 80 photos at 1600 in fine mode at nigth with the lcd turned on before the battery run out! Be carefull or you'll will become potho maniac with this camera!
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Summary: What chicks dig !!!!
Review: THE GOOD:
The highlight of this camera is of course the size. It is super small, super easy to carry around in a shirt pocket, or for a lady to put in a small purse for a night out on the town. It is a DEFINITE attention getter. I went out to dinner with my girl, and about 20 people asked about it (too bad I was with my girl cause 19/20 were chicks ha ha)...
I am far from being a professional photographer, but I am very impressed with the quality of the pictures, and the ability to take them in 3 different sizes (1600x1200, 1280x960, 640x480) and 4 different quality modes (super fine, fine, standard, economy)...
Another pro is the ability to upload the pictures from the camera to u'r computer. You can use the USB cable that comes with it, power it on once its connected to your PC, and automatically window will pop up asking you to tranfer the files from cam to PC (I use win XP)...THE BAD:
The software that came with this camera was a waste of programmer's hours to develop. Better off using windows PAINT, and if your lucky and have XP, better to create a Pictures folder and maintain the photo's there. Not much ability with the software that came with it. Its not pretty to use, and doesn't give you much editing ability. If you already have Photoshop or MS Draw, or any decent photo editing software, then you are good to go. It was also hard to take pictures using the LCD in the dark. For obvious reasons - the screen was pitch black. You would need to take the picture first, and then preview it in the LCD to see if you got the person or have to retake it. But you can shut off the LCD feature and use the viewfinder to take u'r nite shots. THE UGLY:
The ugly is the price. I paid around [$$$] for the camera in April 2002, then bought a matching clip on carrying case for another [$$$], then a 2nd battery for it for another [$$$] (which I lost and had to buy yet ANOTHER battery), plus I bought a 128MB SD memory card for [$$$] cause 8MB wasn't cutting it (now I can put almost 2000 pictures on the card in standard mode)...so bottom line, the camera with a few accessories ended up being around $500. But that is still not too bad for this camera, and the price has DEFINITELY dropped since April, you can probably get it for around [$$$] if you look hard enough. The JUDGEMENT:
This camera overall ROCKS! for being someone's first digital camera. The price has gone down, it is VERY much a fasionable item for guys and girls, GUARANTEED to be approached by someone to ask about it or hear side comments like "wow that is a awesome camera"...
The quality is great for being 2.11MB, which is plenty for a first timer. It is VERY easy to use...high BUY recommendation!
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Summary: What a great little camera.
Review: Although this is my second digital camera, I am not a camera person, I don't like to get bogged down in the details, but I do enjoy sharing pictures with my friends on-line. Holy moly does the Dimage X make it easy. Very intuitive, the manual has found its final resting place in a drawer after a quick initial scan. The camera, in the optional case, slips on to my belt and is barely noticeable. Being a little concerned about the special purpose battery used in the Dimage X, I purchased a second so as to always have a fresh one available. The only negative so far is that I have had to learn to keep my fat fingers out from in front of the lens which is in the upper left corner of the camera. Picture quality is good for my purposes, transfer of pictures to my computer is a breeze. Very happy with the camera.
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Summary: What a sharp looking camera!
Review: I've owned the Minolta Dimage X for about 6 months now, and I have been very happy with it thus far. I will admit I'm not a photography expert, and this is my first digital camera. I'm not the greatest judge regarding photo quality, but I'm definitely happy with it. This camera is definitely an attention-getter, and people will always be asking you to check it out. I love that it fits in the pocket of my dress shirt as well.
The menus on the screen are very easy to use, and there are three size settings and four quality settings. You can also turn off the screen (to save battery life) and use the viewfinder instead. This is handy if you don't have much battery life left. I also like that it tells you how many photos are remaining on the memory card.
There is one negative- the software that comes with the camera is absolutely terrible. It has an ugly lay-out and some of the functions don't even work. If you are doing constant uploading, you may want to use external software. But this is a great and stylish camera for the casual user.
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Summary: Check the Picture Quality!
Review: Yes, it's cute. Yes, you can have it with you everywhere. But bottom line, will you wish you'd taken a different camera with you when you look at the pictures later? I haven't purchased this camera; I considered it strongly until I saw sample images on several camera review sites. On every single one, it goes completely soft in the corners of every shot. It's a limitation of the lens, and once you see it you always see it. I found myself vowing to deal with the greater bulk of my Canon S30 and coming home with pictures worth saving. And for those who say it's a great "party camera" -- look, either a picture's worth taking or it isn't...and if it's worth taking, don't take a blurry one!
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Summary: Macintosh Compatibility Issue - Update for Mac Users
Review: Update to review at bottom.
SYMPTOM:
My iBook (256K RAM, 990 MB Virtual Memory, OS version 9.1) did not "recognize the disk" and offers to "format the disk". If you were to do this, the camera will not recognize it. If your fingers slip, you need to reformat the disk in the camera, which is not an intuitive exercise when the disk is incorrectly formatted. Push enough buttons on the camera and you will find the menus and right menu item. Minolta Senior Support said the only solution is to buy an additional product called a card reader. After getting the CORRECT card reader (SimpleTech Mini FlashLink, also known as MMC and SD Card Reader), I hit the same problem and called SimpleTech. SimpleTech found my problem and resolved it. RESOLUTION:
I enabled the File Exchange Control Panel, using the Extension Manager. (Duh!) After the reboot, both the card reader and the camera work fine. The SD (Secure Digital) media is formatted for DOS. Hope this saves some one some time! More details for those who care: DiMage Installation Tip: Manually move the two DiMage extensions to the System Folder (Extensions Folder) and reboot. The "installer" just copies things to the hard disk; it doesn't actually install anything. I am keeping the card reader as it is much faster than the camera at transferring files and eliminates the tedious formalities of disconnecting the camera and turning it off, which is practically impossible. It is hard to find the correct card reader in Amazon (or anywhere else) when searching for it. Be sure you are getting the brand new "mini" and that what you are ordering includes "SD" in the description. Depending upon your Mac OS, you may or may not need "drivers" (file extensions) from SimpleTech. Kudos to OfficeDepot/OfficeTech who dropped shipped the card reader with same day shipping, above and beyond the service level of many days it shows in Amazon. Kudos to SimpleTech for hanging in there. Minolta is gathering Bad Karma by not giving their Tech Support what they need to help customers: Minolta doesn't "know why it works on some Macs and not others. " That is Minolta's immediate and only answer, after you finally reach "Senior Support" because you own a Mac. **UPDATE** I have upgraded my review from one star to four. Camera performed quite well on trip to Thialand. Movies too much fun and burn batteries (3 Batteries:1 128MB SD Card!)Pix turned out fine. As others have noted, the menus require too much button pushing and some settings stay, some go when camera goes off. The software it comes with is almost worthless, so I am shopping for software now. Difficult to manage the photos in the software. Is possible to correct basic problems with the software. Overall: Real nice small camera, terrible Minolta support, so-so menus, and lame software. I'd recommed it with those caveats
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Summary: A camera in the drawer doesn't take good pictures
Review: That problem goes away with this little camera because you'll take it everywhere. It is really handy!! The pictures are decent and with photoshop you'll have print quality pictures.
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Summary: Listen! just read this review:
Review: I had the Nikon,
I have the DIMAGE 7 (for Studio shot 5.1mb)
I got the DimageX to carry every day with me!
I got the 128mb card 2 batteries and I went to Europe
France Italia without my computer. Got 600 photos!
The Best of the best
However It did stop working...
I sent it back and few days later I got it back or a new ONE!?!
The quality is superbe! Using image -adjust-autolevel in Photoshop and you cannot see the difference!!!
--For the one not happy with the color JUST sent it back to get it fixed!---
Did I tell you that 4 of my friends are today the owner of one as well?
Love it
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Summary: Highly recommended
Review: Flash could be brighter (You have to be ~5-6 feet away from subjects in very dark spaces..) but otherwise an awesome overall camera.
-mark
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Summary: Great Feel, Not so good Quality
Review: Before I begin, I'm no expert, I'm the point and shoot disposable camera type who bought a digital so I wouldn't have to pay $10-$15 10 times a year for a throw-away anymore. So I bought the Dimage X becuase it looked cool and was actually smaller than a disposable. The camera will wow everyone when you whip it out to take a picture. There's no doubt that it looks great, feels great in your pocket and it's a take it anywhere camera. Here are my thoughts. Pros
-Small
-Looks cool -Great Movie mode(35 secs with sound)
-Good zoom
-Decent price for the size
-Battery is pretty good, I took 100 pictures at Fine Quality before it died Cons
-PICTURE QUALITY is worse than a k-mart no name brand throw away. Almost every picture I took indoors has a yellow tint. People will talk auto white balance with you, listen, they are YELLOW. The pictures are not sharp, as you would expect from a digital camera.
-The viewfinder is below par. You look through the viewfinder, think it's centered and after you take the picture it's completely off. I'm 24, my hands don't shake when I take a picture, something is wrong with the viewfinder quality.
-The picture program that comes with it is virtually useless. My advice, I'm I'm being completely serious- Don't get fooled by the great looks. The bottom line is how the picture looks. Maybe the newer version will be better (Dimage Xi)... but my friend has the Fuji 2600 which sells for a lot cheaper, might be bigger, but the picture quality is crisp and digital worthy.
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