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Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z20 Review
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Review Summary
Reader Score: 8.50 (out of 10)
The Dimage Z20 adds a 5-megapixel option to Konica Minolta's line of quasi-megazoom cameras. Its 8X optical zoom is big enough to earn that Z in the name, but it's a few notches shorter than the 12X zoom with which the Dimage Z5 is equipped. Generally speaking, the Z20 is geared toward beginning or budget-minded photographers, and its feature set is reduced accordingly relative to the more expensive Z5 and its brethren. The Z20 doesn't include image stabilization technology, and its 1.5-inch LCD seems puny in the current market. But given those concessions and a handful of others, the Konica Minolta Dimage Z20 is still a capable, responsive camera with an impressive zoom range and better-than-average image quality.
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| Photography Blog |
9.00 |
04-21-05 |
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| The Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z20 is an ultra-zoom digital camera that promises a lot in exchange for a relatively small amount of money. Based around a 5 megapixel CCD sensor and an 8x zoom lens that is equivalent to 36-290mm on a 35mm camera, the Konica Minolta Z20 has an amazing list of advanced features that make you look twice at its budget price-tag. The Konica Minolta Z20 has a very fast start-up time of around 0.5 second, semi-automatic and manual exposure modes, futuristic body design, rapid autofocus and a macro mode that that lets you focus as close as 1cm from your subject. Six months ago I enthusiastically reviewed the Z20's predecessor, the 3 megapixel DiMAGE Z10. Can the Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z20 maintain the same high standards that the Z10 set? Carry on reading to discover the answer. |
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| Imaging-Resource |
8.57 |
04-20-05 |
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| The Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z20 digital camera is the latest in Konica Minolta's highly popular and competitively priced line of DiMAGE long-zoom digital cameras. A good, basic long-zoom camera, the Konica Minolta Z20 sports an 8x zoom lens and a 5-megapixel CCD. While it lacks the advanced anti-shake technology found in the DiMAGE Z5, the Z20 offers most everything else a casual shooter could ask for. In my testing, the Konica Minolta Z20 delivered good-looking images with bright, attractive color and good, crisp detail. It doesn't reach the extremes of performance of some higher-end models, but is responsive to the shutter, and is sensitive enough to handle typical city night scenes with ease. All in all, the Konica Minolta Z20 represents an attractive package of features and capabilities, at an attractive price. Read on for all the details!
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| Trusted Reviews |
8.30 |
04-05-05 |
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| Coming in at just under £170, the Z20 offers a surprisingly full specification for the price, although inevitably some corners have been cut to fit the budget. What you get is a high performance five megapixel camera with an 8x optical zoom lens (equivalent to 36 - 290mm) and a full range of manual exposure, metering and focus options. Its operating system and range of menu options are basically identical to the higher priced Z5 reviewed last week. What it lacks however is the Z5’s image stabilisation system, a very useful addition to any camera with a long zoom lens. Without it, hand held shots at the extreme end of the zoom range are always going to be at risk from camera shake. |
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| Digital Camera Info |
8.20 |
04-18-05 |
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| Armed with a 1/2.5 inch 5 MP CCD and 8x optical zoom lens, the Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z20 supplies users with both fully automatic control settings and manual exposure modes. Users can store both still and video footage on either the optional SD/MMC memory card or to the 14.5 MB of internal storage provided. Users can review or compose images with the fixed 1.5 inch color LCD screen or color viewfinder, though they are not simultaneously operable. Manual control settings include focus, white balance, exposure priority, aperture, shutter speed, EV compensation and flash, along with a few additional shooting options. VGA video clips can be recorded on the Z20 at 15 frames per second or QVGA video clips can be shot at 30 frames per second. Unfortunately, without a video out port, users will only be able to export video and still images through either the memory card or the USB port located on the right side of the camera. The Z20 can currently be found online for around $250 (USD). |
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| Mac World |
8.00 |
04-29-05 |
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| The Konica Minolta Dimage Z20, like the Dimage Z5 , looks like a contraption from a sci-fi movie. But concealed within its unique-shaped body is a surprisingly capable camera with an Automatic mode for snap shooters and Program, Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, and Manual exposure modes for shutterbugs. |
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10-01-05 |
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| To anyone looking for a competent, easy-to-use camera with an exceptionally flexible lens, the Konia Minolta DiMAGE Z20's report card is overwhelmingly positive. If you can live with the bulky and somewhat plain body and small, low-res "switchfinder," the Z20 rewards you with superb ergonomics, speed, great battery life, and the ability to take excellent pictures of subjects that can be as close as less than an inch and far, far away thanks to the excellent 8X optical zoom. This is one of those rare cameras that can do it all. |
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| LetsGoDigital |
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06-30-05 |
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| Konica Minolta introduced the DiMAGE Z20 worldwide at the beginning of this year, 21 January 2005, to tell you precisely. The new Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z20 is equipped with a 5 Megapixel CCD image sensor and features an 8x optical zoom lens. The digital cameras from the DiMAGE Z-line are very popular and feature a most attractive price. These mega zoom digital cameras have been working on an impressive march lately and are definitely conquering a part of the market share. Unlike its brother, the DiMAGE Z5, the Konica Minolta Z20 has to do without the handy anti-shake system; nonetheless the Z20 offers just about everything an enhanced amateur can wish for. |
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