On 3 Dec 2003 at 19:49, Mat Hayashibara wrote: > At 03:24 PM 12/3/2003 +0100, you wrote: > >Btw, did anyone notice that the latest version of Minolta's digicam > >(DiMage 7hi) with fixed 28-200mm equivalent) now also comes with a > >mechanical IS-system....however not stabilizing a lens element, but > >the CCD itself? > > The latest upper-line Dimage is the A1, the 7Hi has been discontinued.
The current one is indeed A1, although I could swear the page I looked at at dpreview had 7hi in its name. > I think it still has the electronic image stabilizer, just like my old > floppy-disk based Sony Mavica MVC-91. It would be wonderful to have > electronic stabilization built into my D30 or D60. No, the Minolta has a mechanical stabilizer, CCD-element only...see this video: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/minoltadimagea1/Images/asmovie.mov Also interesting is the fact that, because of it's much smaller CCD, it has a shortest shuttertime of 1/16000s....:)) Which also implicates that 5MP with a CCD-size of 6x8mm could easily be extrapolated to 20MP on a full-size chip. (can't remember where I read 6x8mm either....seems conflicting with the official 2/3" at first glance, but those inch/tube-sizes are quite inflated, and the lens actual 7.2mm focal length matches the 28mm-equivalent nicely, with the same factor 4 (as between 6x8mm and 24x36mm)) -- Bye, Willem-Jan Markerink The desire to understand is sometimes far less intelligent than the inability to understand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [note: 'a-one' & 'en-el'!] * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
