The Minolta DiMAGE A1 is a 5 megapixel
bridge digital camera with
electronic viewfinder
An electronic viewfinder (EVF) is a camera viewfinder where the image captured by the lens is displayed on a small screen (usually LCD or OLED) which the photographer can look through when composing their shot. It differs from a live preview sc ...
manufactured by
Minolta
was a Japanese manufacturer of cameras, camera accessories, photocopiers, fax machines, and laser printers. Minolta Co., Ltd., which is also known simply as Minolta, was founded in Osaka, Japan, in 1928 as . It made the first integrated autofocu ...
.
It was introduced in July 2003, replacing the
Minolta Dimage 7 series
The Minolta Dimage 7, 7i, 7Hi series is a "pro-sumer" line of digital electronic viewfinder cameras from Minolta. These are also known as bridge digital cameras. They are capable of capturing images in the 5-megapixel range.
The Dimage 7 was ann ...
. It was the first Minolta product to incorporate the
Anti-Shake
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A camera is an optical instrument that can capture an image. Most cameras can capture 2D images, with some more advanced mo ...
system, a built-in image stabilization system.
Unlike the DiMAGE 7-series cameras which use four
AA batteries
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or an external battery pack connection, the DiMAGE A1 uses a newly introduced battery cell designated Minolta NP-400. A key feature of it is a long battery life. (The NP-400 is also used with the final Konica Minolta DSLRs, the
Dynax 7D/
5D).
[
This was the final Minolta-badged bridge camera product before the ]Konica Minolta
is a Japanese multinational technology company headquartered in Marunouchi, Chiyoda, Tokyo, with offices in 49 countries worldwide. The company manufactures business and industrial imaging products, including copiers, laser printers, multi-fu ...
merger. The DiMAGE A1 was succeeded by the DiMAGE A2
DiMAGE A2 is a digital camera which was manufactured by Konica Minolta, announced on February 12, 2004.
Specifications
The Konica Minolta DiMAGE A2 is a discontinued, 8 megapixel CCD digital camera. Sony bought out the Konica Minolta line and f ...
in March 2004 (as the first Konica Minolta-badged product), with an 8-megapixel CCD sensor.
References
External links
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Cameras introduced in 2003