The Minolta DiMAGE A1 is a 5 megapixel

bridge digital camera A bridge camera is a type of camera that fills the niche market, niche between relatively simple point-and-shoot cameras and interchangeable-lens cameras such as mirrorless cameras and single-lens reflex cameras (SLRs). They are often compar ...

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, lenses, 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 ...

. 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 anno ...

. It was the first Minolta product to incorporate the

Anti-Shake Image stabilization (IS) is a family of techniques that reduce blurring associated with the motion of a camera or other imaging device during exposure. Generally, it compensates for pan and tilt (angular movement, equivalent to yaw and pi ...

system, a built-in image stabilization system. Unlike the DiMAGE 7-series cameras which use four

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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 corporation, multinational technology company headquartered in Marunouchi, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Chiyoda, Tokyo, with offices in 49 countries worldwide. The company manufactures business and industrial imaging products, in ...

merger. The DiMAGE A1 was succeeded by the

DiMAGE A2 The Konica Minolta DiMAGE A2 is a digital bridge camera which was manufactured by Konica Minolta, announced at the Photo Marketing Association exposition on February 12, 2004 as the flagship of Konica Minolta's fixed-lens DiMAGE digital camera line ...

in March 2004 (as the first Konica Minolta-badged product), with an 8-megapixel CCD sensor.

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