Konica Minolta DiMAGE G500 Digital Camera (MINOLTA-QMS-2731131)

Minolta DiMage G500

DiMAGE G500 Digital Camera (MINOLTA-QMS-2731131) Review, by Alan Stafford December 9, 2003

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• Reviewed by: marinera

  Strengths: GOOD

  Weaknesses: GREAT

  Overall: I had many digital cameras and more megapixels then this one i can tell you this is my best camera evercolorful pictures great quality some times come out blurry but what camera does not do that?i recommend this little camera to everybody and i have no complains about this one

• Reviewed by: steve1969ls1

  Strengths: size, style, two mem slots, fast start up.

  Weaknesses: low battert life, no zoom in movie mode, small LCD screen

  Overall: Love the camera but I wish it had a bigger battery. I did not get much time out of it when using the flash. However I got an extra battery for $10 so all should be well. Menu is a little cumbersome at first but gets easier.Overall im very happy with the cameraOh, I noticed the "triangle in the view finder" also as stated.. what causes it is that you are "seeing" the telescopic lense. If you open the front with the camera off (no lens extension) you do not see the dreaded "triangle" :)

• Reviewed by: piseas

  Strengths: 5.0, ease of use, price, dual memory, size, looks.

  Weaknesses: none so far

  Overall: I read reviews and noted not one person noted a triangular shape on the bottom right corner of the view finder. I thought something was wrong and took back to Costco but 2nd one has it too. I emailed Minolta and they said it is normal for this camera but does not affect picture printing, which I confirmed. Has anyone else noticed this? Otherwise I love this camera.

• Reviewed by: blackcapten

  Strengths: Small, light, fast startup, fast picture taking, low shutter lag

  Weaknesses: pixel problem with my camera

  Overall: Bought my camera from Newegg after exchanging it with a Minolta Dimage G400 that had a pixel problem.The G500 had the same problem! Every picture had a bright white/green spot, and it was visible on the LCD screen as well as the pictures. I sent it out for repair and hopefully will be enojying the camera in a couple months. Will update further when it comes back.

• Reviewed by: izzycerino

  Strengths: very good camera of steel and protect the lens very safely.you don't even need manual to read through, except for installation on your pc. ít's a very friendly camera.

  Weaknesses: battery could go longer. but you can make aproxiamately 100 photo's with a full battery. i must say that's a lot.

  Overall: in the reviews on the other internet pages i saw that this camera is not so populair like canon. however, the camera shows what is its made of and preforms very well.in dark as well in daylight. i must say that when somebody taking a picture of me, i get red eye effect. but that's not so bad. the light/flasher is very good, you can make good distance photo's with it. i keep my g500 always on 5 milj. pixels because i use the photo's to make a vcd. ít's like a living picture what you get. the menu is very simple, though it seems like it has very options, but just practise and you ll get there.i can recommend everyone who is looking for a digital camera to choose this one. you don't need the manual at all.a huge plus point for this camera is: memorystick and sd memory at the same time. memorystick's used most of all by sony is very modern memorycard and its lot quicker than compactflash and a little bit better than sd card. this memorystick will overrule in the future, watch my word.with quicker i mean ... when you make a photo, the camera, the trasferring time is very fast. so you can make a lot of snapshot's at once with the memorystick.