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March 6, 2004
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Speedy snapper with excellent manual features
20 of 20 Yahoo! Users found this review helpfulPros: high-speed, never miss a key shot, excellent outside shooting
Cons: color balance undersaturated, indoors lowlight less than ideal
My third digicam, I took this little guy out shooting along with a Canon S400 to compare shot-shot performance. Sizes are comparable (G400 is thinner, trifle longer, S400 is wider, boxier, heavier).
Minolta beats the Canon hands down on performance (shot-to-shot speed, autofocus speed, shooting from startup) and on features for manual shooting (if you ever use them). Also seems to get much longer battery life.
Canon beats Minolta on color accuracy (healthier looking skin tones) when using default mode and some indoor shooting.
The Minolta's dual memory card system (Smartmedia + Memstick) lets me copy photos to share with people using other cameras (sort of like old computers using two floppy drives--back when people needed floppies, that is). That feature alone proves remarkably useful while traveling.
Since I photo-adjust all my shots on the computer to optimize the skin tones, the Minolta comes out ahead.
Either one is a winner of a camera--and with the Minolta, you really won't be missing many shots. ...