Konica Minolta DiMAGE X1 Digital Camera

8 MP camera that is easy to use and now cheap to buy. Not the best on the market, but a good quality point and shoot compact digital. Battery life is good,but not great. Advantage is that additional batteries are cheap.
Bought the camera as an upgrade. I have a Konica Minolta Dimage X60 5 MP already and have not had any problems since I bought it 18 months ago. Liked the X60 so bought the X1 as a present for my Wife.
I would recomend it if you want a good camera from a quality manufacturer, without breaking the bank.
I would not recommend it if you serious about photography.

I bought this camera as a surprise for my husband for Christmas.
He already had a digital camera but wanted a smaller compact one that he could put in his pocket. I watched e-bay for cameras for a few weeks to get the feel as to what was around and prices etc. Eventually I did find one which caught my eye and went for it and won it!

My buy was trouble free and easy. It arrived within two days and very well packed. It was like new and even had extras like a case for it. I did worry tho as women and cameras don't exactly gel and throught I may have made a huge mistake.

On Christmas morning he was absolutely delighted. Only thing missing was an instruction booklet but by son (also impressed)said that sometimes they dont come with instruction booklets as they are in so may languages and they can be downloaded off the internet. Don't know how true this is but a brand new instruction booklet has since been obtained from the makers.

I had a simlar buy with my mobile phone back in the summer. I do feel that if you see something on e-bay and feel 'this is the one' then go for it.

Just in case someone out there is interested, here is my ten pennyworth on the Konica Minolta X1 (That is a Number one not a letter after the X).
I believe this is the last camera they produced before selling their technical expertise to Sony.
This model was not without controversy, there were major criticisms,
The first was they did manufacture different colour models including the one they called Black. This was the particular one I set my Heart on and eventually purchased New, direct from Japan via Ebay. I do not mind saying here and now (some folks did – there and then !).
BLACK IT WAS NOT. It is a sort of metallic grey and if you wanted any proof you only had to look at the rear of the camera, where the superb 2 and ½ inch Colour LCD monitor screen (The camera does not have a conventional view finder), has a handsome BLACK border which frames the monitor screen. To see what BLACK is.
Novel it was, BLACK IT AINT. And yes I was, still am, bitterly disappointed I would have sent it back if I had bought it here in the UK. Not only the Colour discrepancy, but the case has a shiny surface which shows finger-marks so badly unless you wear cotton gloves. I should have stayed with the Xt, my previous purchase, now THAT was Black, but it was only just over 3mega pixels and I stupidly thought I needed/wanted eight !. For a time I virtually hid it away and used the Xt instead, until the waste of money forced me to concede to the slightly larger newer model !.
The other (major) criticism as far as I was concerned is that it is not able to take photos in low light conditions without flash and the naturally small sized flash it has, is only really effective over very short distances.
Otherwise I could be very happy with the camera, it IS capable of taking some quite superb and easily captured photos if you read the excellent Instruction Manual, and learn to use the camera properly.
Last point, Konica Minolta (K.M.) repairs can be very costly.
The Company recommended by K. M.,(NOT SONY who are now – or WERE, apparently committed to repair of some of the K.M models)requested more than £15 for a replacement plastic shutter operating button, for one of the K.M. models and which they eventually sent free of charge when I threatened them with taking the story to the Press, so be warned !.
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I bought the Konica Minolta Dimage camera for my dad. He has always been a keen photographer and was a little nervous moving on to the digital camera but he has seen me with mine and was impressed with the simplicity of it, along with the excellent picture quality.

Dad was very pleased with the camera and I was very pleased with the communication I had with the seller. It was dispatched very quickly and packaged safely.

I was very happy with the transaction and the quality of the item.

Bought damage camera for charger only as I lost mine, Reeived camera and charger very quickly seller, also e- mailed me to inform me that camera was sent and I received within 2 days, excellent service

I took this camera on a recent trip to Hong Kong. Each member of the family took along their own compact digital camera, so there was something of a competition between us. The others all brought "conventional" cameras - press the "on" button, and the lens (eventually) extends itself from the front. Mine (this one!) is different: the lens is mounted sideways inside the camera, and looks forwards through a prism (a bit like a submarine's periscope) This doesn't affect the quality of the pictures in any way... but it DOES affect how long you have to wait between reaching for your camera and actually USING it. Generally, I'd pulled my camera out of my pocket, taken the shot, reviewed it and put the camera away before the others had even taken their pictures. It was also - by far - the smallest camera in the bunch (although the LED screen at the back was the second biggest)

Bottom line, this is the perfect camera for "happy snappers", possibly less so for photo perfectionists (although the pictures taken were of excellent quality) It does everything than a "Normal" camera does... but generally does it much faster and more conveniently. Reminds me of the old adverts by Victor Kyam. Sony liked the idea of "folded optics" so much... that they bought the company! These days, you can't buy a new Minolta camera like this one - but you CAN buy its grandchildren... made by Sony. Same product, just a different brand name.

I wouldn't swap mine for a camera costing ten times as much: it does what I need it to do, quickly and easily. In fact a lot MORE quickly and easily than most of its rivals. For what it's worth, I also bought a spare battery and external charger for the camera - when (after a couple of hunded shots) the battery runs flat, you can swap it for a fully charged replacement. With a 2 Gigabyte SD card, that provides more than enough to keep the busiest of snappers busy all day.

After a decade of digital photography which superseded a 1/4 of a Century of Silver Halide-driven real photography I rediscovered the 8-Megapixel Konica Minolta X1 Digital camera who founding design philosophy has pervade almost every brand of today's digital camera - The folded light-path digital camera.
In 2002 Minolta launched the DiMAGE X, 3/4 inch thin this pocketable 2-Megapixel wonder was the first outing for a very revolutionary lens design with 35mm equivalent focal length of 37mm-111mm the slim DiMAGE X body had no protruding lens assembly as the lens CCD assembly was mounted vertically in the camera body the forward looking lens aperture in the slim satin-finish alloy body was fronted by a pentagrams that changed the vertical optical axis of the lens through 90 degrees so the light entered the folded bath lens through a convention vertical optical aperture in the front of the camera body, Successive models were launched, the DiMAGE X21; X31 Xt & Xg as the CCD imaging chip climbed through the 2-Megapixel range to a heady 3.2 megapixel count - not bad for a 2003 digicam!
In 2005 Konica Minolta (the result of Konica & Minolta merging in an increasingly competitive film camera; then digital camera market-place launched the biggest small idea the had every had; an 8-megapixel camera that was onLy 3.7 x 2.7 x 0.8inch inch thick was equipped with large 2.5inch LCD screen & weighed less than 150g/6 ozs with Lithium-Ion battery & SD Card.
Although some reviewers took an instant dislike to the X1, my results half a decade later prove that were a bunch cretins when it came to intelligent comment!
Overall the X1 is a revelation to the digital photographer, its pocketable - so it goes "Everywhere" you do, it shrugs off poor choices of lighting as it "knows" you could have done better, and its image depth is impressive.
I have recently "won" several X1's on eBay, and by the way that Mint examples are fetching in excess of £60, many others also rate this camera as very
highly!
But perhaps I shouldn't praise the X1 too highly otherwise you'll be bidding against me on future eBay auctions for the Konica Minolta X1!!!

These little cameras are excellent and as they were £300 to start with £5+ is a steal. I got camera, case and manual plus charger etc., although I already have one exactly the same, but not in such good condition, as I want to give them to a friend and her daughter. That way there should be no arguing. There is a viewer, not so often seen these days, which for those of us who wear glasses we still need. The pics are absolutely wonderful even thought it would appear to fairly low spec. You can use it on auto or play with the settings. It is a metal body, so fairly tought. The screen is only 1.5 so rather small, that can be a downside. But if you are going away, for a beach holiday or hiking then don't buy new. Get one of these on ebay, even if you have to pay £30, it is well worth it and you will be so pleased. There is video mode and mic too. You recharge the battery and it will last for ages unless you want to take loads of video. How can you go wrong with the names of Konica & Minolta? The X version is fine, the t, g, and others vary little and some have ordinary batteries so I think this is even better.

I bought this camera because i used to have one but unfortunetly it got damaged but i still have the underwater housing for this camera so have been looking to buy another one, for a long time but you dont seem to be able to get them anymore as this is the older model but i dont care it takes fantastic pictures, and they are just as good underwater so thank you very much Ebay your the best

this camera is easy to use, compact and stylish all in one. you can also use this with photo printers with ease. a joy to use by novice or experienced picture takers alike.

great camera,perfect picture quality.extra li-ion batteries from hong kong on ebay are dirt cheap.fits perfectly in shirt top pocket.-point,rear of camera shows up every fingerprint.I use a small flexy tripod as a handle to avoid marking lcd screen & this also makes for steadier shots.

This is a second Dimage that i now have, this is for my wife, they are super slim,do everything thet Konica say they will, just a beautiful piece of engineering,stylish and so functional

excellent item well recomended....like i said minolta is a very simple advanced and powerful phohtgrahic provider,,,,,