MINOLTA Dimage F100 Digital Camera

by Minolta

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• Item Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000092Q9P
• Item model number: F100RC
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #63,312 in Camera & Photo (See Top 100 in Camera & Photo)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 12, 2006

Product Description

Manufacturer Description

So stylish, yet so powerful...the Minolta DiMage F100 brings you high-quality imaging and innovative features such as high-quality Minolta GT lens, the world's first Area AF with Subject Tracking AF, the world's first Automatic Digital Subject Program Selection, 3x optical zoom and 2.5x seamless digital, and high-level creative imaging.

Minolta's exclusive Area AF
With many advanced digital cameras, a half-press of the shutter will start focus lock. But with the DiMage F100, capturing in-focus images is even easier. Thanks to the amazing Minolta-developed Area AF, you can just point the camera and shoot--no focus lock is required. Area AF will automatically detects your subject within its extra-wide focusing area, and deliver optimum results.

Subject Tracking AF
The DiMage F100 is the first digital camera with a built-in lens to offer the Area AF with Subject Tracking AF. Subject Tracking AF is a feature that keeps great photo opportunities from passing you by. That's because it automatically follows the movement of your subject within the autofocus area, switching the active focusing block to make sure the subject stays sharp. This feature is activated with a half-press of the shutter button, and it continues until you press the button all the way down to capture the image.

Rapid autofocus
Camera response is further enhanced by rapid autofocusing. This speedy operation is the product of ultra-fast ASIC circuitry, a sophisticated focusing algorithm, and quick lens adjustment. It leads to focusing speeds of approximately 0.35 seconds at the widest lens angle and approximately 0.5 seconds in telephoto (1 meter).

World's first Automatic Digital Subject Program Selection
Another feature making its first appearance in a digital camera, Automatic Digital Subject Program Selection, makes it easier than ever to get correct exposures in various situations. Just leave the DiMage F100 in Auto mode, and exposure is adjusted automatically to match the scene: portrait, night portrait, landscape, sunset, or sports action. The LCD monitor displays an icon to tell you which mode is active. Macro mode is also provided as a manual setting.

Portrait
Adjustments are made to obtain soft skin tones, and your subject is made prominent through a shallow depth of field.

Sports
Shutter speed is quickened to ensure that a moving subject stays in focus.

Landscape
Both your subject and the background are in sharp focus. Ideal for taking pictures of friends in front of a landmark or other interesting location.

Sunset
Red value is heightened to faithfully capture the scene.

Night View/Night Portrait
Colors under artificial light are reproduced accurately, and slow-shutter sync is used during flash shooting.

Macro Mode (manual setting) is additionally provided
This mode lets you take impressive close-ups from as close as 5.7 inches from the lens.

Superfine 4-megapixel images
Take the quick and easy route to high-quality images with the stylish DiMage F100. It captures sharp, detail-rich images with 4.0 million effective pixels. At this level of resolution, you can turn your shots into photo-quality that are larger than postcard, or even clear B4-size enlargements (approximately 15.2 x 11.4 inches, 150dpi).

High-quality Minolta GT lens (38-114mm)
The Minolta GT Lens has been specially designed for use with digital cameras, allowing the DiMage F100 to maximize the power of the CCD. It is an ultra-compact lens system with 3x optical zoom, and is comprised of 8 elements arranged in 7 groups. Among these elements are 3 aspherical lenses that minimize chromatic aberration and reduce distortion along the outer parts of an image.

Clearer colors through Minolta CxProcess
If you're interested in images with true-to-life color, then Minolta CxProcess has just what you're looking for. This exclusive image processing technology strikes a balance between sharpness, tonal gradation, and other factors to create remarkably natural colors that reflect your original impression of the captured scene.

7.5x zoom (3x optical and 2.5x seamless digital)
A wide zoom range is an essential tool for framing the shot you're looking for. That's why the DiMage F100 offers 3X optical zoom, with a range covering the equivalent of 38 to 114mm on a 35mm film camera. And when you're at the limit of optical zoom, the camera shifts seamlessly into digital zoom, which provides an added 2.5x magnification. This gives you a total zoom range of 7.5x, and a telescopic 285mm (equivalent) focal length as your maximum.

Fast, stress-free operation
The DiMage F100 is ready for action right away thanks to its ultra-fast ASIC circuitry. And, as you're shooting, autofocusing is very fast. Checking your images is also hassle-free.

Movie recording
Why settle for still pictures alone? The DiMage F100 lets you record movies up to 35 seconds long, complete with audio. You can play back a movie on the camera's LCD monitor, or connect the camera to your TV and enjoy it on the big screen. Movie files are recorded in Motion JPEG format (320 x 240 pixels).

Voice recording
The DiMage F100 is also equipped with audio-only recording, which can be a convenient tool for taking notes. A single clip can be 30 minutes long, and is stored as an 8-bit uncompressed Wave file. Playback is not included.

Audio captioning
Keep a record of where and when you took a particular shot by adding an audio caption to it. Captions are recorded after image capture, and can be 5 or 15 seconds long.

Ergonomic design
From the overall shape to its various controls, the DiMage F100 puts a lot of emphasis on comfortable use. First, the lightweight and level contour body makes it easy to carry around and to hold as you capture images. Next, camera controls are positioned in a way that supports easy, intuitive operation. Controls include a user-friendly four-way control key and a big function dial for switching between modes. And, to make shooting more enjoyable, you can set the DiMage F100 to emit the sounds of a traditional film camera, like the shutter click of a Minolta SLR or the nostalgic Minolta CLE.

Simple PC data transfer
SD Memory CardThis camera uses tiny memory cards (SD memory card or MultiMediaCard) to store your images as you're capturing them. And when you're ready to transfer data to your PC, the Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface gets things done in no time at all. USB supports Hot Plug and Play for ease of use, so you can hook up the camera whenever your PC is on.

E-mail Copy for easy resizing
At full size, a 4-megapixel image is much too large for displaying on a PC monitor. So if you want to share a great picture with someone, just use the handy E-mail Copy feature, which resizes any image to a trim, emailable size (640-by-480 pixels). E-mail Copy lets you do this through the camera itself, instead of on a PC.

Versatile built-in flash
The built-in flash features a TTL (through-the-lens) flash metering system, and has a variety of selectable flash modes. When the camera is set to Auto, you have four modes to choose from: auto, manual fill-flash, red eye reduction, and flash cancel.

What's in the Box:
DiMage F100, battery (CR-V3), hand strap (HS-DG100), SD memory card (16MB), AV cable (AVC-200), USB cable (USB-500), DiMage software CD-ROM.

Product Description

REFURBISHED / 4 Megapixel / 3x Optical and 2.5x Digital Zoom / Area and Subject Auto Focus modes / Uses SD and MMC Cards

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars Good camera, but I've seen better., September 18, 2003

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JohnF "fallenmurk" (East Granby, CT United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MINOLTA Dimage F100 Digital Camera (Electronics)

We bought this camera for work. It takes very nice pictures - it's got great optics. It does eat batteries much faster other cameras though. Now I know what you may be thinking, "every digital camera review says they have a small battery life", but in this case it is extreme IMO. We have a couple other cameras that don't eat batteries like this one. Here's where we made mistakes and I hope you learn from us: we saw that it takes AA batteries and figured we'd use Alkaline batteries to start ->Mistake 1)It uses up Alkaline batteries in a matter of minutes (literally about 7 minutes); Mistake 2)Lithium Ion AA's don't last much longer; you NEED to buy Ni-MH AA batteries. That'd be OK if someone had told us that before hand. Lastly, the rechargable NiMH batteries still don't last as long as other camera-specific Lithion Ions. Summary: Hassles not worth the price.