Konica Minolta DiMage Xi

I've been using my Xi for six years and apart from a new battery it has been faultless. My daughter recently got a Nikon D40i and we did some comparison shots. The lack of noticeable differences surprised us both.
It's long in the tooth now, but I'm having a hard time choosing a replacement.

Compact size, quality of images

faultless

3xoptical integrated lens ease of use very tidy size fits in trouser pocket

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Great point and shoot camera. It takes wonderful photos. The camera has everything you need. It's very compact and make it ideal for traveling. It fits easily in the pocket. The movie mode is good only when there is plenty of light availabe. The only thing I don't like about the camera is the battery life but a second battery is reasonably priced.

TINY 3x zoom Great pics easy setup with my Macintosh

software, use a third party such as Photoshop. Battery Life

Nikon SLR n65

no problems yet.

This is my fouth digital camera and the second one I purchased for a specific use. I have a Nikon Coolpix 4500 for my formal photography with it many great and wonderful manual settings. I found it too complicated and bulky to use on a casual basis. I shopped around for six months for a small, automatic point and shoot digital to use for casual snapshots. This was the PERFECT choice for me. 3X opitcal zoon without lens extraction; 3 Megapixel pictures with a variety of compression modes as well as tiff uncompressed; whitebalance options; movie mode (with sound!), and digital voice recording. Many, many features for the price and convenience of a very small (fits in my shirt pocket, although, I hang it on my belt most of the time in a custom fit case from Minolta), extremely high quality digital camera. Color is great; movies are impressive when used on casual occasions (no having to care a videocam too!) I do a LOT of digital photography to video modes and this is the perfect combination of video and still pictures with one camera. Color reproduction is excellent! Sound reception in movie and sound mode is good considering the location of the microphone. Compared to other, smaller digicams, this is the best for the price....loads of features and simplicity of use for casual occasions.

Excellent color reproduction with sharp focus. Ease of use; easy to navigate menu. Small, Small, Small! Fully automatic with a fast startup for snapshots! Excellent optical 3X zoom! Well constructed; I have big hands but use it comfortably.

Battery and memory cover is plastic henged(concerned it may break easily).

Kodak 3400 2 megapixel (great shots but bulky!). Early Polaroid 800 Pixel (first digicam.) Nikon Coolpix 4500 (for my formal shots and semiprofessional shots.)

Haven't needed customer service....over 1,000 shots so far!