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Minolta DiMAGE 7i review

Started Aug 17, 2004 | User reviews thread
ThomasB
ThomasB Contributing Member • Posts: 783
Re: Minolta DiMAGE 7i review

neilt3 wrote:

If your going to do some comparison shots with the Ricoh GXR P10 , please post them .

Always interesting to see how these things compare .

Sorry, but I've cancelled the plan to do a direct comparison. For me it's clear now that the Ricoh was the better choice for various reasons.

I can say now after return from holidays with my Ricoh that it's quite a capable camera for this purpose; i.e. low weight and small size with high versatility. In this respect the Ricoh is definitely the better choice.

The picture quality on small sensor unit is comparable. Most probably the Minolta lens is a little bit better in terms of CA's but the Ricoh lens offers more focal length; i.e. 28-200 vs. 28-300. On the other side the Ricoh offers a higher resolution. Additionally the Ricoh offers the possibility to exchange the lens unit hence I've had also my 28mm/F2.5 and 50mm/F2.5 lenses on APS-C sensor with me. The Minolta lacks of this feature.

Here are example pictures from the Ricoh with the P10 (small sensor unit):

Panorama from 6 pictures

And another one from the 28 mm unit (Actually 18.3 mm/F2.5 APS-C):

Particularly the 28mm unit with the 12MP APS-C sensor is awesome.

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Regards, Thomas Bernardy
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