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Category: Beginner to Serious Amateur

The Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z5 is an upgrade from the Z3, now featuring 5MP resolution. It still has a whopping 12x optical zoom, the unique CCD Anti-Shake System, and a Rapid Focus system for short shutter lag times at both wide-angle (focusing at 0.2 sec.) and telephoto focal lengths (focusing at 0.3 sec.).

The Konica Minolta Z5 retains the distinctive futuristic look, with clean and smooth rounded lines and corners. It has fast operations, and provides flexible exposure control. Those who wear glasses will welcome the diopter control on the electronic viewfinder, which covers about 100% of the frame. The Real Motion LCD monitor is now larger at 2 in. The Anti-Shake System is an image stabilization system that works on the CCD image sensor instead of a lens element; its main function is to reduce camera shake at long focal lengths and slow shutter speeds.

The Konica Minolta Z5 retains a Super Macro mode that allows focusing as close as 1 cm (0.4 in.). An optional wide-angle Converter ZCW-300 provides a 35mm equivalent of 26mm wide-angle shooting.

The Konica Minolta Z5 is full-featured and, like the Z3 before it, will appeal to soccer moms and wildlife photographers, both beginner and serious amateur photographers, who desire an ultra zoom digital camera with easy point-and-shoot as well as flexible exposure control -- now with Anti-Shake!

	Konica Minolta Z5	QuickFact™ Sheet
	Image Sensor	5.0 effective megapixels (2560 x 1920 pixels) 1/2.5 in. CCD with Anti-Shake
	Lens	Minolta APO GT
	Focal Length	5.83-69.9mm (35-420mm, 35 mm equivalent)
	Maximum Aperture	F2.8(W)-F4.5(T)
	Optical Zoom	12x
	Macro	10cm / 3.9in. Supermacro: 1cm / 0.4in.
	Auto Focus	• Video AF system • 5-point Wide Focus Area with Focus Area Selection • Single-shot AF, Continuous AF with predictive focus control, Full-time AF, Manual focus
	Shutter Speed	4 - 1/1000 second
	Exposure Control	Programmed AE, Aperture priority, Shutter priority, Manual
	Shooting Modes	Digital Subject Program Selection (Portrait, Sports action, Landscape, Sunset, Standard, Night portrait -- Automatic and manual selection), Movie (640x480 30fps Motion JPEG MOV with sound limited only by capacity of memory card); Continuous (Fine 2.ofps - 3 frames @ 2560 x 1920; Standard 2.2fps - 6 frames @ 2560 x 1920; UHS 10fps - max. 20 frames @ 1024 x 768; Progressive - stores last frames instead of first, 10fps - 20 frames @ 1024 x 768)
	Exposure Compensation	+/- 2EV in 1/3 increments; Exposure Bracketing (three frame bracket in 1.0, 0.5, 0.3 EV increments)
	Light Metering	Multi-segment, Center-weighted, Spot
	White Balance	Automatic, Preset (Daylight, Tungsten, Cloudy, Flash and Fluorescent), Custom
	Viewfinder	Electronic viewfinder (EVF), 0.33 in. with a total of 114,000 pixels; @ 100% coverage; diopter control
	LCD	2 inch digital-interface TFT colour; 114K pixels; automatic monitor amplification; @ 100% coverage
	ISO Sensitivity	• Auto • Manual equivalent 50, 100, 200, 320
	Storage Media	SD (Secure Digital) Memory Cards, MultiMediaCards
	Battery	4 AA batteries: Alkaline, Ni-MH
	Included Accessories	• 16MB SD Memory Card • 4 AA Alkaline Batteries • A/V Cable, USB 2.0 Full-speed (i.e. USB 1.1 equiv.) Cable • Strap (Neck), Lens Cap • Software CD-ROMs (DiMAGE Viewer)
	Dimensions (W x H x D)	108.5 x 80 x 84 mm / 4.3 x 3.1 x 3.3 in.
	Weight (Camera body only)	340 g / 12 oz.
	MSRP	US$499.99

Recommended Konica Minolta Z5 Accessories:

• Camera Case
• Battery Charger Kit
• 512MB SD Card
• AC Adapter (if you do not want to wait for a fully recharged battery to upload pictures)
• PROGRAM/MAXXUM FLASH 3600HS(D), 5600HS(D), 2500(D)
• Wide-Angle Converter ZCW-300 kit

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