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Remanufactured Minolta Dimage Xt 3.2 MP Digital Camera w/ 3x Optical Zoom
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The Best of The Best and Practical Too
(5 out of 5) by Andrew Griffith on Jun 19, 2003 (Big Bear City, CA-USA)I have owned two four meg cameras,Minolta F100,Olympus early four meg.The F100 was a great camera in all its features including simple double A-A recharable batteries that lasted easily using a 128 stick. The Olympus was great except it used batteries like a Texas Oil well,Thats why I bought the F100. Then Came along the Sony two meg DSCU20 my # 3 camera. The U20 is the best small camera I have yet to use in it's basic functions are very practical for point and shoot. Why because it has a fixed lense that allows instant start up for quick pictures that I have made very good 8 X 10 blow-ups on shots that had good framing on the exposure. The 8 meg stick would hold 14-15 picture that averaged 650 KB. I then reviewed my pictures from the four meg cameras and those were 960 to 1.3 KB
and later realized that usig my new Minolta XT 3.2 meg camera by setting the image siz to 2048 X1536 and then the quality to TIFF my pictures were much biger in pixel size, 9.2 meg's.
The problem was it took ten times longer to shoot and internally record each picture ( about 60 sec) then I moved one step down in pixal size (1600 X 1200) and fine setting on quality and my picture exposures was much quicker and produced about a 900 kb size picture and decided that I would only use the max setting for pictures that I had to have the max pixal size. In short you will realy be impressed with the lowest setting and still have the option from 640 X 480, 1280 X 960, 1600 X 1200, 2048 X 1536 image size along with quality setting's: TIFF, Fine, Standard, Economy. Using the max setting you will fill a 128 meg stick with about 15 picures and much more as you reduce the pixal size of each picture using the above combination that fits your actual needs. I am now with the opinion that a four meg camera is not the best way to record pictures when with some field work you will find that a 3.2 meg ( Minolta XT) is an outstanding developement for range of quality pictures. I still have my Sony U20 because it is a quality built; simple wide angle camera for those quick shots sized perfectly (640 kb) for Email.
and later realized that usig my new Minolta XT 3.2 meg camera by setting the image siz to 2048 X1536 and then the quality to TIFF my pictures were much biger in pixel size, 9.2 meg's.
The problem was it took ten times longer to shoot and internally record each picture ( about 60 sec) then I moved one step down in pixal size (1600 X 1200) and fine setting on quality and my picture exposures was much quicker and produced about a 900 kb size picture and decided that I would only use the max setting for pictures that I had to have the max pixal size. In short you will realy be impressed with the lowest setting and still have the option from 640 X 480, 1280 X 960, 1600 X 1200, 2048 X 1536 image size along with quality setting's: TIFF, Fine, Standard, Economy. Using the max setting you will fill a 128 meg stick with about 15 picures and much more as you reduce the pixal size of each picture using the above combination that fits your actual needs. I am now with the opinion that a four meg camera is not the best way to record pictures when with some field work you will find that a 3.2 meg ( Minolta XT) is an outstanding developement for range of quality pictures. I still have my Sony U20 because it is a quality built; simple wide angle camera for those quick shots sized perfectly (640 kb) for Email.
2 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
X20 is a scaled down version of Xt
(4 out of 5) by Amazon Customer on Jul 19, 2003This is to Superman2K3.
I am not an owner of this product, but let me comment Mon this.
While X20 should be a good staff, but it is essenially a scaled down version of Xt.
It is 2 Mega Pixel instead of 3 of XT.
It is slightly thicker than Xt, because of battery.
The prism is replaced with mirror, which is cheaper.
CCD is smaller
.
I am wondering which one to buy, because X20 has USB 2.0, and also as Superman2K3, battery operation is handy.
Biggest drawdown would be it has only 2mega pixel and smaller CCD. I might wait 6 months.
I am not an owner of this product, but let me comment Mon this.
While X20 should be a good staff, but it is essenially a scaled down version of Xt.
It is 2 Mega Pixel instead of 3 of XT.
It is slightly thicker than Xt, because of battery.
The prism is replaced with mirror, which is cheaper.
CCD is smaller
.
I am wondering which one to buy, because X20 has USB 2.0, and also as Superman2K3, battery operation is handy.
Biggest drawdown would be it has only 2mega pixel and smaller CCD. I might wait 6 months.
1 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
Complete satisfaction!
(5 out of 5) by Amazon Customer on Oct 31, 2003The product was delivered on time, in new condition with all accessories as stated. The price was within $5 of the lowest.