Konica Minolta DiMAGE X1 Digital Camera

I bought the DiMAGE X1 8MP digital camera to replace my old DiMAGE X20 2MP (A good digital camera in itself, durable and compact. Although it still took pictures, the LCD would often discolor or warp. During it on and off did the trick but I wanted something updated and more powerful).

First thing I noticed was it's stylish design. Very sleek and sexy (although a bit on the heavy side). Screen was also a big plus. 2.5 inches of beautiful clarity and sharpness. At a large 8 megapixels, you still retain sharpness and clarity when you enlarge picture, which is good. It comes with a dock, which is very useful for charging as well as data transfer at the same time. The USB cable that comes with it will not fit on any ports on the camera, must be plugged into dock and camera must be used on dock to transfer files, something I did not prefer. The anti-shake feature was nice too, although getting it to work is somewhat of a pain. Sometimes, with it on, the pictures came out more blurry! Control layout is good, but finding some of the settings took a slightly longer learning curve than usual. Not sure if it's my fault, but camera takes pretty blurry pictures in low-med light setting (i don't use flash, but i did the same thing with my old DiMAGE X20 and pictures came out sharp and clear). No matter how much I hold still, pictures came out bad. I tinkered around with the setting but nothing helped. Other than that, it took pictures just fine at other times. Video recording comes out pretty good as well. All in all, it's been an average experience. I liked my friends Canon Digital Elph a lot better. But for the money, it was a decent purchase.