Konica Minolta Dimage E500 5MP Digital Camera 3x Optical Zoom

Konica Minolta Dimage E500 5MP Digital Camera 3x Optical Zoom
Manufacturer: Konica Minolta
Product Type: Photography

Editorial Review:
Product Description
Small enough for photographers to take anywhere and stylish enough to show everyone, the DiMAGE E500 provides photographers with unparalleled value in a 5-megapixel digital camera featuring a 3x optical zoom lens.

Average customer rating:

I am disapointed
Buying this camera was one of the biggest regrets of my life!!!!
DON'T BUY THIS CAMERA - NIGHTMARE
mountainredneck
Excellent Budget Buy

Konica Minolta Dimage E500 5MP Digital Camera 3x Optical Zoom

Manufacturer: Konica Minolta
ProductGroup: Photography
Binding: Electronics

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Product Features:

5.0-megapixel CCD captures enough detail for photo-quality 13 x 17-inch prints
2.0-inch LCD; 3x optical zoom
12MB of internal memory
5 Digital Subject Program modes; records movies in QVGA format
Stores images on SD memory cards; powered by AA-size batteries

ASIN: B0009NDL0E

Product Description

Small enough for photographers to take anywhere and stylish enough to show everyone, the DiMAGE E500 provides photographers with unparalleled value in a 5-megapixel digital camera featuring a 3x optical zoom lens.

Customer Reviews:

I am disapointed.......2006-07-18

Three years ago I bought a refurbished Minolta Dimage F100 camera. It was a 4MP caera that in my opinion was the best. Funny thing is that I never used it in 4MP and took all my pictures in 3MP. After 2 years of ROUGH usage by my son, my wife and I, it got stolen. I wanted another camera that was as good, and with my previous experience with a Minolta, I decided to buy a new Minolta camera that fit all my requirements: sd memory, aa batteries, Minolta, at least 5 MP. I bought this piece of ____.

At first it was great. Then it got bad, just like everyone else reviewing, blurry pictures, grainy pictures, battery drainage, etc...

After playing around with it, I did find fixes for the problems. The blurry image comes from a very slow shutter speed in auto mode. Toddlers will not freese for you to take their pictures. I needed to take pictures of my kids in action. I no longer use auto. I set it to active. I set the ISO manually to 200 to fix the blurriness. I lowered the color saturation to medium to help with the grainy pictures. As for battery drainage, I had previously bought a bunch of rechargeable batteries that I keep in my camera bag.

All those fixes make the camera usable again. But the best solution to the problems I will do in a month or so. I will buy a Canon A620. It may be bigger, but my wife will stop complaining that she hates the camera.

Buying this camera was one of the biggest regrets of my life!!!!.......2006-07-02

I seriously HATE this camera with a passion!! I just wanted something cheap that took normal quality pics, but no, this camera takes BLURRY pics ALMOST EVERY SINGLE TIME, it's sooooo embaressing bringing this stupid camera with me to events and having EVERY picture be blurry. I almost cried last night at my cousins' wedding because I couldn't take even ONE picture to remember the event. I've had atleast 5 of my friends say "I hate your camera." Well, I hate it too. I will die happy if I can sell it for $100. I bought it for $150 back in November and have barely been able to use it!

DON'T BUY THIS CAMERA - NIGHTMARE.......2006-06-28

I bought this camera this past December for my birthday at $199. It seemed great at first - takes beautiful pictures, very small, etc etc.
I just returned from a vacation in which the camera completely stopped working.
Because Konica is no longer making cameras I've had the hassle of going through an outsourced company to get this problem resolved, because I'm still under warranty.
The outsourced company has been very helpful, and told me that this camera was NOT made by Konica but another company, and Konica bought thousands of them, and once many of them broke, Konica could not afford to pay for all the repairs.
I was told that this camera single-handedly brought down Konica Minolta.
If you already have this camera and it works, then great... but for people wanting to BUY it, I wouldn't recommend it... if it breaks you will go through a nightmare to fix or replace it.
Konica was incredibly rude to me and denied any responsibility for a product they made.
My situation is finally being resolved by Sony giving me a replacement camera because they now own Konica, but it really wasn't worth the hassle.
Before the camera broke i'd have given it 4 stars, but after dealing with the situation, I have to give it 1 star.

mountainredneck.......2006-05-18

This camera was purchased for my wife to have with her all the time. She is a basic novice, and she has gotten very good pictures with this little piece of technology. She uses it as intended, and does'nt expect miracles. It has all of the functions that she needs, fits her hand to a tee, and drives me nuts printing pic's. For your spouse or children who want to enjoy digital photography and have fun doing it, this is a good way to go.

Excellent Budget Buy.......2006-01-08

I wanted a cheap and good camera that has the abilities to shoot photos and do a good job at shooting short videos. The battery cage is a but fiddly. They just don't tell you that regular batteries don't do the trick. Consider going to Radio Shack and buying a 4AA battery charger. I can shoot up to 40 pictures with 2AA rechargeable batteries. Walgreen's Ultra Alkaline SuperCell also work best when in a pinch!

The best part about it is that fact that it is almost pocketable and so easy to use with the jog dial that allows you 5 picture settings. Yes, the viewfinder is grainy but at that price what do you expect? Good zoom, good memory economy choices, decent battery life, and a quick wake up time. It is also easy to upload pictures and the protect feature helps against photo transfer loss.

The only bad thing is it is too boxy and a bit ugly but it has a strong body and a sleek black velvet case included.

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