On 4 Dec 2003 at 16:23, Willem-Jan Markerink wrote:
> 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))
Henning Wulff corrected me: not 20MP (4x/linear) but 80MP
(16x/surface)....a bit more substantial indeed....:))
(the memory-industry will love it....;))
--
Bye,
Willem-Jan Markerink
The desire to understand
is sometimes far less intelligent than
the inability to understand
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