Konica Minolta QTsi Reviews

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Overall Rating
 3 of 5

Value Rating
 4 of 5

Used product for
More than 1 year

Visitors rate this review
5.00 of 5,
1 votes

Price Paid:  $0.00 from wolf Camera

Summary:I recieved the camera as a gift a few years ago, and have had a lot of fun with it. It is very easy to use, and very light. I have outgrown the camera, but it serves a nice purpose, and does what it is designed to do. It is a good travel camera for people who want a little more than a point and shoot, but still want its simplicity. And its pretty cheap now from what I can tell.

Strengths:simple to use cheap good travel camera for the beginner photographer.

Weaknesses:No exposure/ aperature control. I fact All settings are automatic with a selector for program, portrait, landscape, macro... modes. AF is slow, and can't handle low light conditions at all, I've had focusing issues in daylight too. (problems may in part be due to the lenses I'm using)

Overall Rating
 1 of 5

Value Rating
 1 of 5

Used product for
3 Months to 1 year

Price Paid:  $225.00 from Walmart

Summary:I thought that I was getting a camera that I could use what I learned in my class. But I got an oversized point and shoot camera. I am not very happy with it. I want to be able to play with the camera to get different images. Now I am looking for a new camera.

Overall Rating
 2 of 5

Value Rating
 2 of 5

Used product for
3 Months to 1 year

Price Paid:  $270.00 from Target

Summary:My first SLR way back when. Even though I was new the QTsi did not offer enough to satisfy my needs. It is basically an oversized point-and-shoot camera. It needs to at least have some manual functions besides focusing. It is way to easy to outgrow this camera. I would not recommend this model. I used it for maybe a couple months then bought an XTsi.

Strengths:None

Weaknesses:Oversized point-and-shoot camera with no manual overide functions.

Similar Products Used:XTsi

Customer Service:N/A

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
Less than 1 month

Visitors rate this review
3.29 of 5,
7 votes

Price Paid:  $200.00

Summary:I own or owned an Xtsi, that is, until a trip to British Columbia in August. On the first day on my first role of film I dropped the camera and broke the clasp on the back making the camera inoperable. Lets see…, first real family trip in 5 years, two lenses, a flash and camera bag, lots of film, and no camera body. While in Calgary I stopped in a camera store and picked up a re-furbished Qtsi for 200.00 bucks. I could at least use my lenses and get those once in a lifetime shots of our five year old romping around in Alpine meadows with glacial backdrops. This is probably the most basic camera I have owned since my browning days and I wasn’t expecting much more than the most basic of shots. SURPRISE, of the 11 or so rolls I shot I didn’t have to hide a single shot from the family, in fact I came back with some of the best shots I have ever taken while on holidays. Part of the reason I believe was the HUGE 5 function display on the top of the camera that screams out {use me dummy}, …so I did. You don’t have to know anything about f-stops or apertures just learn what the 5 settings are good for and enjoy. While it could never be my only camera {after 25 years I like to pretend I know what I’m doing, despite what my wife says}, this is a great beginners or family camera. If you want the quality of an SLR without having to take Photo 101, this is your camera.

Strengths:Ease of use, common sense layout, LARGE pre-set screen, quality of shots. Simplicity, if you learn to use all the funtions on this camera including when to use the flash for outdoor fill ins, and what the pre-sets mean and are doing for you, you will be ready to move up to something that gives you more control. Somtimes less IS better.

Weaknesses:I did not use it much in darker settings[two weeks of clear blue skies], but the auto focus may hunt a bit in darker settings.

Similar Products Used:X-700 XGM XTsi

Customer Service:when I can make it past the switchboard its pretty good. person at switchboard has an attitude[or I'm paranoid].

Overall Rating
 3 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
Less than 1 month

Price Paid:  $250.00 from ebay

Summary:Great camera for those wanting full automation. Personally, I misread the facts and was wanting a camera with the manual features. Great quality, though, and easy to use.