Konica Minolta DiMAGE EX1500 Zoom Digital Camera Recommendations

Minolta has packed a variety of in-demand features into the Dimage EX 1500, and used Flashpoint's Digita operating environment to provide a powerful scripting language to extend the camera's capabilities. Features include a 3x aspheric optical zoom lens, a 5-mode flash, a 1.45 megapixel CCD image sensor, excellent overall image quality, and an available image-storage mode with absolutely minimal compression. To our minds though, two features really make this unit stand out relative to other devices on the market. An especially key feature is the camera's enormous 16 megabyte RAM "buffer" memory, that lets you shoot up to 7 full-resolution images without pausing. In practice, we found this to make a huge difference in how the camera felt, producing a responsiveness much more akin to a high-end film-based point and shoot than a typical digital camera.