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Summary: Unbelievable Steal for the Money
Review: Bought this camera because of features and money. Do you think that it's worth spending over $ for a digital camera in this age of 4 and 5 megapixels? If you are mostly a point and shoot kind of guy with a little bit of manual fun, this is the camera for you. The digital video (small but effective) is an extra that is nice to have but not necessary. The best part about this camera are the beautiful pictures and I mean sharp, sweet, vivid, and that is the kind of thing you cannot compromise in any camera. Perhaps a tad larger than others but you are getting far more than what you pay for in terms of features versus price. Remember who you are and this camera will be your favorite.
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Summary: DiMAGE - It's an Excellent camera for all people !
Review: It's an Excellent camera for Me and some my friends who bought it with my opinion. This DC has solid built, quick response, excellent zoom (esp. 4x GT optical zoom) and LCD, quick AF.Easy to use, with the option of using advanced features for creativity. Fine and very very sharp images w/better colours. And, of course, It's a great camera for the money ! Very very cheap for high-quality device.
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Summary: Leader in the market!
Review: This is one of the best deal that you can ever find as of today, [...] I owned the earlier version S304, and when I came to upgrade it, nothing else came to my mind but the S414. After shopping around, I am convince this is the best 4MP camera you can get for less than [$$$]! The image quality is superb, the metallic casing is solid and looks professional. Very suitable for many scenarios!
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Summary: Excellent Choice
Review: The S414 is an excellent choice if you are looking for an all-around awesome camera. A very good fried of mine has the S404 and loves it. I consider myself an advanced photographer that has been fighting off the digital craze. Until now 35mm is had been dear to me but the instant gratification of digital is amazing. I am very happy with the manual settings that let me be creative. The auto setting also takes very good pictures. My 10 year old daughter has no problems in taking nice shots. I would recommend NiMh batteries and at least a 128 meg CF card. I purchased a 256 meg card and at medium setting the card will hold over 400 images. At this price with all the features...well I am very happy!!!
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Summary: good picts but drains batteries like crazy
Review: excellent pictures but uses up batteries like crazy.
Nimh batteries a must.
Odd size difficult to find suitable case. Otherwise I love it!
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Summary: For Digital look no further!
Review: I have this camera for 2 weeks now and really enjoyed using it. Although it seems no different than s404 at first, you can later notice that it considerably uses less battery. However I would still recommend to buy Monster Cable 2000mAh rechargeables with this baby. I have 256MB Lexar 12x and its reader, I feel like owning a photo studio. Super stuff...
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Summary: Awesome Camera
Review: I got this camera for an amazing deal in the first place, only $200 dollars, and it came with a nice pacakge from Ritz Camera, a nice software and digi prints and camera classes (18 of them!). The camera came with some alkalines, but I was suprised to find a little box that contained a charger and 4 NiMH batteries! I think that Minolta got the idea that the battery problem was a big one, so they threw in some batteries. I love the camera, its big enough to hold without me feeling like its gonna slip out of my hands. Only thing I really reccomend is get a nice camera bag and definitely a bigger CF card, as the 16MB one that comes with the camera is way too small.
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Summary: A great camera for most situations.
Review: I bought this camera because it saved in TIFF format, had 4x optical zoom and uses Compact Flash and the price was reasonable at $200. It came with NiMH batteries and charger which was a surprise. Overall I am very satisfied with this camera and recommend it to all but the very discerning. You get a lot for the buck. There are some drawbacks that are livable to me.
Pros:
1.Saves in TIFF format (I keep the size down, so I get 1 picture per 4MB of card)
2.4x optical zoom (I disabled the digital zoom)
3.Uses inexpensive compact flash
4.Takes quality images in AF and Macro mode.
5.OK batteries useage(I bought 2200mAh which take 80 pictures per charge, more at lower resolution).
Cons:
1.Heavy and bulky.
2.Tripod mount off center.
3.Focus OK indoors, diificult outdoors, resulting in some blurry images in the sun. Shade is not a problemNeeds a focus shade.
4.Overall color OK. could be better.
I use Photoshop to crop and color correct almost every image. I usually don't have to color correct images taken with this camera, like I did with my Kodak 280 so I am very please with that. The Outdoor shots in full sun can be a problem. I bought my daughter a SONY Cyber-shot, 2MP and no zoom. It is a basic camera that is wonderful. Light weight & easy to use, fits in shirt pocket and takes excellent images. It makes a great companion to the Minolta S414.
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Summary: Great Camera, but it East Batteries
Review: This is actually a pretty good camera if you look at the
features. The pictures are awesome, and the zoom is powerful.
I really like the autofocus. It draws a little rectangle
around the item that the camera thinks it should focus on,
so you know before taking the picture. The camera is
sturdily made, chunky, and easy to hold. The price is also
great. So why do I give it 1 star? This camera eats batteries
like CRAZY! I don't mean it gets annoying after a while,
it gets annoying right away. I tried several good
recharageables, and I still run out of batteries after about
20 pictures. Once the batteries die, the lense won't close.
that's a problem when you're walking around. As I already stated, the camera itself is great, but the
battery situation is so bad that it makes the camera virtually
useless. I traded mine in for a coolpix 3200, and I'm loving
it.
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Summary: Bad Camera..Too Bulky.
Review: I bought this camera just a month ago and I didn't have any major problems with it apart from it's huge size and weight. But in this little time, it's LCD has stopped working!!The camera would start but the LCD wont. Just imagine you buy a new camera and in just a month's time,it stops working.Now I need to ship it to Minolta's Service Center and will have to bear a lot of Shipping charges. And I have a lot of precious occasions upcoming and will be missing them without my camera.Also it drains the batteries like hell.With 4 batteries, actually the camera should be able to work for longer duration but it's the other way.Moreover it's too slow in focusing. After such a bad experience, I would not recommend anybody to buy this camera.
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