Minolta DiMAGE S304 Specifications
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| Street Price | US: $750 UK: £799 |
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| Body Material | Aluminium | |
| CCD pixels |  |
3.3 megapixels |
| CCD effective output | |
3.14 megapixels |
| CCD size** | |
1/1.8" |
| CCD Colour Filter Array | |
G - R - G - B |
| A/D Converter | 12 bits | |
| Max resolution | 2048 x 1536 | |
| 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) | |
35 mm |
| Zoom tele (T) | |
140 mm (4x) |
| Lens Construction | 11 elements in 9 groups (includes 1 AD glass element adn 2 aspheric) | |
| Lens Thread | 35.5 mm | |
| Lens Max Aperture | |
F3.0 - F3.6 |
| Digital zoom | |
x2.0 |
| Auto Focus | • TTL Contrast detection • Wide Area AF (3 areas - auto selected) • 5 area AF manually selectable |
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| Auto Focus modes | • Continuous auto-focus (while
LCD is on) • Single auto-focus (half-press of shutter release) |
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| AF Illumination lamp | |
No |
| Manual Focus | |
Yes, approximately 25 positions Monitor readout shows 0.5, 0.7, 1.0, 2.0 m, Infinity |
| Normal focus range | |
Wide: 50 cm (19.7 in) - Infinity Tele: 90 cm (35.4 in) - Infinity |
| Macro focus range | |
16 cm (6.3 in) - 60 cm (23.6 in)
(Focal length fixed) |
| 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 • Full Manual • Scene modes: Macro, Portrait, Landscape, Night, Text |
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| Aperture Priority | Wide:F3.0, F6.7 Tele: F3.6, F8.0 |
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| Manual Exposure | Apertures as above Shutter speeds: Bulb, 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 |
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| Metering | |
• 256 Segment Metering |
| Exposure adjustment | |
-2EV to +2EV in 1/3EV steps |
| AE Lock | No | |
| Auto bracketing | |
• 3 images • 0.3, 0.5 or 1.0 EV steps |
| Picture Controls |
• Contrast |
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| Colour Modes | • Colour • B&W |
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| White Balance | |
• Auto • Manual preset (custom) • Daylight • Tungsten • Fluorescent • Cloudy |
| Continuous | |
• 2048 x 1536 FINE - 1.4 fps,
max 4 images • 2048 x 1536 STD - 1.2 fps, max 9 images |
| Movie clip | 320 x 240, with audio, 60 sec max | |
| Audio annotation | 15 seconds 'attached' to image | |
| Built-in Flash | Yes, internal | |
| Flash Range (ISO 100) |
Wide angle: 0.7m - 2.4m (2.3 ft. - 7.8 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 | Date | |
| Tripod mount | Yes, metal (corner) | |
| Self-timer | Yes, 10 sec delay | |
| Remote control | Yes, optional | |
| Time-lapse recording | No | |
| Video out | Yes, selectable NTSC / PAL | |
| Storage media | |
Compact Flash Type I |
| Storage included | 16 MB Compact Flash card | |
| Viewfinder | |
Optical, no dioptre adjustment |
| LCD | |
1.8" TFT 122,000 pixels |
| Print compliance | DPOF, Print Image Matching | |
| Playback zoom | Yes, 2.0x, 2.5x, 3.2x, scrollable | |
| Operating system | Proprietary | |
| Connectivity | |
USB |
| Battery | |
4 x AA batteries (NiMH recommended) |
| Battery charger | |
No |
| Weight (inc. battery) | 448 g (1.0 lb) | |
| Dimensions (inc. grip) | 114 x 65 x 59 mm (4.5 x 2.6 x 2.3 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) |
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