Konica Minolta DiMage Z3 Reviews

Rating
Reviewed by: Richard Groome
(Intermediate)

Review Date
August 12, 2006

Overall Rating
4 of 5

Value Rating
4 of 5

Used product for
3 Months to 1 year

Visitors rate this review
5.00 of 5,
2 votes

Review 1 of 3

Price Paid: $210.00 from eBay

Summary:

A good little camera. Most of the strengths and weaknesses are typical to it's class, but the antishake is a big help, and only some evfs have it. Also the dedicated flash in very unusual in this category and a real boon for any serious flash use. Beware however, it will only work with very recent Minolta flashes - not older Maxxum ones like the 3500xi.

Strengths:

Antishake
Dedicated hot shoe
12X zoom
Compact size
Completeness of controls (3 types of metering, flash exposure compensation, etc.)
Good handgrip (it looks weird, but it works)

Weaknesses:

Metering defaults to 1/3 stop underexposure (probably to avoid burned out highlights)
Finicky autozoom
High noise at ISO 400
Occasional poserization of colors
Can't do a decent job a tracking a moving object
Autofocus hunts when dark (especially at tele end)

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Rating
Reviewed by:

salvolarosa
( Intermediate)

Review Date
November 30, 2004

Overall Rating
4 of 5

Value Rating
4 of 5

Used product for
0-1 years

Visitors rate this review
3.00 of 5,
1 votes

Review 2 of 3

Price Paid: $408.00 from pixmania

Summary:

hello, sorry for my bad english i'm italian! after read more and more review about a ultrazoom camera i have select 2 model for my budget the canon si is and the dimage z3 finally i select Z3 for the best zoom 12x and for the 4M pixels of resolution i suppose that if the canon have 4M pixels may be that i prefear the canon, but go to the goal. i'm very happy for my new camera about the semplicity for the point and shot system my whife can use the camera! and for the good resalt in auto mode. and for the beautiful result in night photo and indoor photo whit flash.

Strengths:

sorry but i dont understand the word Strenghts!

Weaknesses:

a much more noise with 200 iso setting, a little overespose

Similar Products Used:

nothing

Customer Service:

very good in 2 day from paris to italy!

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Rating
Reviewed by:

rejo
( Expert)

Review Date
October 14, 2004

Overall Rating
4 of 5

Value Rating
4 of 5

Used product for
0-1 years

Visitors rate this review
4.67 of 5,
6 votes

Review 3 of 3

Price Paid: $0.00 from Broadway Photo

Summary:

Bought a Z3 a couple of weeks ago. The antishake is really amazing. With other cameras I was having trouble holding even a 3x zoom without shake. With this one I immediately went out and did hand held test shots up to the full 48x optical + digital zoom and found no blur due to shake at all.

Strengths:

Antishake. Also, it orked immediately with an SD card formatted on a Palm Pilot. No need for reformat. And the images were then viewable on the Palm.

Weaknesses:

Have used the camera only briefly, but have found no unusual weaknesses. I am pleased to have it.

Similar Products Used:

Canon A70. The overall image quality might be a little better with the Canon, except for its lower megapixel count. The Z3 does seem to show appropriately higher resolution than the A70, as its 4MP rating versus 3MP would indicate. I like them both.

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