Minolta Dimage S404 4MP Digital Camera with 4x Optical Zoom

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Brand: Minolta
Category: Photography

Buy Refurbished: $99.95

Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

1 reviews

Media: Accessory
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Optical Zoom: 4
Display Size: 1.8
Maximum Resolution: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.1

Model: 2781-101
UPC: 043325992957
EAN: 0043325992957
ASIN: B000063VYI

Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Features:

•	4-megapixel sensor captures 2,272 x 1,704 images for prints at 11 x 14 inches and beyond
•	4x optical/2.2x digital (8.8x total) zoom lens with autofocus
•	Included 16 MB CompactFlash card stores 12 images at default resolution
•	Automatically connects with Macs and PCs via USB port
•	Uses 4 AA batteries (alkalines included)

Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
At its core is a powerful 4.0 megapixel, 1/1.8-type CCD. And to maximize CCD performance, the DiMAGE S404 features two of Minolta's finest technologies: a superior quality GT Lens and CxProcess image processing with 12-bit A/D conversion. The result? A new level of 4.0 megapixel image quality is yours.Konica Minolta drew on its renowned optical expertise and the same GT Lens technology used for the top-of-the-line DiMAGE 7 to develop this sophisticated lens for digital imaging. Although compact, it boasts optical precision powerful enough to match the ultra-high-resolution CCD. And by reducing distortion and color aberration, the lens offers sharp, detailed images at all focal lengths. Even at telephoto range, you can get images with bright aperture value.The high-resolution CCD gives you the level of detail needed for truly impressive print quality - up to approx. 38.5 x 28.9 cm (15.2 x 11.4 inches) using an inkjet printer at 150dpi. As for color reproduction, the CCD has an RGB primary color filter to ensure natural-looking hues on each shot. Each of the red, green and blue color signals is converted by 12-bit A/D processing and provides 4, 096 color gradations. Compared to pictures from conventional 10-bit models, you'll see much greater detail - with a total of over 68 billion gradations.A unique Konica Minolta technology, the CxProcess controls important image factors such as sharpness, gradation and noise reduction for clear, vivid, natural-looking image reproduction.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars

There is a learning curve. January 19, 2007
Thomas Thompson (Central Coast, CA)
You can get a lot out of this camera, but it is not a point and shoot. If you love photography for the process of obtaining beautiful results, then this is the camera for you. Take the time to learn about the features and abilities of the camera and it will produce wonderful results.

With this camera the first thing to know is you MUST pre-focus EVERY shot, if you just depress the button it will hunt for the focus for awhile and most likely get it wrong. A half press of the button will give you a fairly fast focus, tell you where it is focusing, you then have the option to take the picture (which it takes very fast) or release and re-frame to obtain the proper focus. It sounds like a pain, but it all happens quick enough, with a little practice, you will astound your friends with your abilities and your camera.

The biggest complaint I hear about this camera is -indoor pictures have a yellow cast- to this I say, in this day and age, it is time you learned about white balance. This camera has manual white balance, select manual white balance, point the camera at a wall in your house, press the shutter release, now your in door pictures look fantastic. Simple, no?

If you get a good deal on this camera, get it and learn how to use a camera, not just snap mediocre pictures.