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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 ...

Dimage 7, 7i, 7Hi series is a "pro-sumer" line of digital

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cameras from Minolta. These are also known as

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s. They are capable of capturing images in the 5-mega

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range. The Dimage 7 was announced 11 February 2001. The line uses a 2588 × 1960 pixel sensor coupled with a permanently attached optical 28–200 mm (35 mm equivalent) f/2.8W – f/3.5T

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with a macro switch (16 elements in 13 groups, includes two AD glass elements and two aspheric elements) The Dimage 7/7i/7Hi series cameras were powered with four

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, which discharged quickly; the 7-series was replaced by the DiMAGE A1 in July 2003.

Specifications

References

External links

Complete review of Dimage 7

Comparison of 7Hi and 7i

UFRaw

Jens Roesner − Camera Page

Pete Ganzel − Camera Page
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