Digital Photography Review
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| Street Price | US: $500 [check
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| Body Material | Aluminium | |
| CCD pixels |  |
4.1 megapixels |
| JCIA effective pixels | |
4.0 million |
| CCD size** | |
1/1.8" |
| CCD Colour Filter Array | |
G - R - G - B |
| A/D Converter | 12 bits | |
| Max resolution | 2272 x 1704 | |
| Lower resolutions | • 1600 x 1200 • 1280 x 960 • 640 x 480 |
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| Image ratio w:h | 4:3 | |
| Image formats | |
• TIFF • JPEG (EXIF) |
| Quality Levels | • Super-Fine (TIFF) • Fine • Normal • Basic |
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| Sensitivity equiv. | |
• Auto (ISO 100 - 200) • ISO 100 • ISO 200 • ISO 400 • ISO 800 |
| Zoom wide (W) | |
38 mm |
| Zoom tele (T) | |
114 mm (3x) |
| Lens Construction | 8 elements in 7 groups | |
| Lens Thread | None | |
| Lens Max Aperture | |
F2.8 - F4.8 |
| Digital zoom | |
x2.5 |
| Auto Focus | • Wide Area AF (3 areas -
auto selected) • Center area AF • Focus area selection |
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| Auto Focus modes | • Auto focus: Subject tracking
AF, Single shot AF, Full-time AF • Manual focus |
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| AF Illumination lamp | |
No |
| Manual Focus | |
• Yes, approximately 20 positions • Monitor readout shows 0.5, 0.7, 1.0, 2.0 m, Infinity |
| Focus range | |
• Normal: 50 cm (1.6 ft) -
Infinity • Macro: 20 - 60 cm (7.8 - 23.6 in) |
| Min shutter | |
4 secs + Bulb in Manual Exposure mode; max 15 secs |
| Max shutter | |
1/1000 sec |
| Noise reduction | No | |
| Exposure Modes | • Program AE • Aperture Priority • Shutter Priority • Manual Mode • Subject modes |
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| Subject Modes | • Auto: Portrait, sports action,
landscape, sunset, night portrait • Manual: Portrait, sports action, landscape, sunset, night portrait, macro |
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| Aperture Priority | • Wide: F2.8, F3.5, F4.0, F4.5,
F5.6, F6.7, F8.0 • Tele: F4.7, F5.6, F6.7, F8.0 |
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| Shutter Priority | 4, 3, 2, 1.5, 1, 0.7, 0.5, 1/3, 1/4, 1/6, 1/8, 1/10, 1/15, 1/20, 1/30, 1/45, 1/60, 1/90, 1/125, 1/180, 1/250, 1/350, 1/500, 1/750, 1/1000 sec | |
| Manual Exposure | • Apertures as above • Shutter speeds as above plus Bulb (max 15 secs) |
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| Metering | |
• 256 Segment Metering |
| Exposure adjustment | |
-2 EV to +2 EV in 1/3 EV steps |
| AE Lock | No | |
| Auto bracketing | |
• 3 images • 0.3, 0.5 or 1.0 EV steps |
| Picture Controls |
• Contrast compensation |
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| Colour Modes | • Natural • Vivid • B&W |
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| White Balance | |
• Auto • Daylight • Tungsten • Fluorescent • Cloudy • Manual preset |
| Continuous | |
• 1.6 fps, max 5 images @ 2272
x 1704 FINE • 1.6 fps, max 8 images @ 2272 x 1704 STANDARD |
| Movie clip | 320 x 240, 15 fps, max 35 sec with audio | |
| Audio annotation | • Voice memo: 5 or 15 seconds
with each still image • Audio caption: 15 seconds max with each still image • Audio recording: 30 minutes max |
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| Built-in Flash | Yes, internal | |
| Flash Range (ISO 100) |
• Wide: 0.5 - 2.9 m (1.6 - 9.5 ft) |
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| Flash Metering | Preflash TTL meter | |
| Flash modes |
• Auto |
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| Flash compensation | None | |
| External flash | No | |
| Data Imprinting |
Yes, optionally Date |
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| Tripod mount | Yes, metal | |
| Self-timer | Yes, 10 sec delay | |
| Remote control | Yes, optional IR | |
| Time-lapse recording | No | |
| Video out | Yes, selectable NTSC / PAL | |
| Storage media | |
SD/MMC card |
| Storage included | 16 MB SD card | |
| Viewfinder | |
Optical, no dioptre adjustment |
| LCD | |
1.5" 123,000 pixel |
| Print compliance | DPOF, Print Image Matching | |
| Playback modes | • Single image • Magnify (up to 5x) • 9 thumbnails (3 x 3) • Exposure information |
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| Operating system | Proprietary | |
| Connectivity | |
USB |
| Battery | |
• 2 x AA batteries (NiMH recommended)
or • 1 x CR-V3 Lithium battery |
| Battery charger | |
No |
| Weight (inc. battery) | 240 g (8.5 oz) | |
| Dimensions (inc. grip) | 111 x 52 x 40 mm (4.4 x 2.0 x 1.6 in) |
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Click for glossary entry / help |
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This measuring system is a leftover from the days of video TUBES and has nothing to do with the surface area of the chip in a direct sense. The Edmund Scientific Optics catalog has a sidebar that completely backs up the idea. For instance, a "one inch" chip has a 16mm diagonal sensor array. A "one half inch" chip has an array of only 8mm in the diagonal. This means that the 1/1.8 = 0.555 inch measurement means NOTHING about the sensor array size. Unless they have changed the entire measurement system just for this chip, the actual sensor patch is 11% larger than the 8mm of a 1/2 chip or 8.88mm in diagonal. (Mark Schubin of Videography Magazine) |
From:
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/MinoltaDimageF100/
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