Camera verdict???

Purchase made !

After several hours of research on various sites and reviews, I finally purchased the Z1 from Internetcamerasdirect for £259. I recieved it this morning and havnt had chance to really try it out “properly” yet apart from the obvious cat, car , wife (not that type!), garden view shots. Hopefully as im working in Leeds tomorrow , I may be able to slip down to LBA and “break it in!” for a few mins…………..

Thanks for your correspondance earlier regarding your views, The only reason I wanted to post the question on here is as I know a few of you are budding aviation photographers yourself and I wanted advice on if the camera had been used “aviation style”, something to which the review websites couldnt offer.

Cheerio,

Graham

working part-time for dixons may eventually allow me to speak some use on here, or at least pass on some customer comments 😀

The Z1 is supposed to have a fantastic little lense on it. Clear, light with a fair field of vision. its user interface is meant to have been significantly improved over earlier Minolta versions (where from a customer viewpoint the company has often lost out to the likes of Agfa, Fuji and Kodak) too.

Advantages include the 10x optical zoom (excellent for hobby photography such as this) and the fact the power comes from AA rechargables (a must as your ordinary alkaline batteries may only last 10-15mins) gives you the advantage of using such batteries if you ever caught out when air force one begins a descent 🙂

an obvious disadvantage to owning a minolta digicam can come from the price of the memory format it uses – Secure Digital (SD) or Multimedia (MMC). these cards are often, throughout our company, priced quite abit higher than other formats. but to be honest, like you’ve seen the camera cheaper, its ust a case of looking for a really good buy because you WILL DEFINITELY require some larger memory cards – particuarly for your BEST or BETTER quality shots!

so to sum up, after the ramble lol its apparently a fantastic camera, something you shouldnt really be able to go wrong with! 😉

cheers,

LGKR

There is a “Buy it Now” option for this camera on ebay for £219.99 plus Postage Packing. The only downside is that the postage is £35.. seems a lot.

The product is brand new however.

Have a look on www.dpreview.com