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Hi all,

I am about to buy a 1 year old, slightly used, Dimage 7hi, which is
currently sitting on a shelf, for $400, including all accessories, and
a 256MB CF card.

Since it seems like such a great deal, I wanted to find out if there
are any major problems I should look for when I test drive the camera.

ALSO, I'm meeting him Monday or Tuesday, so if you can help me in a
jiffy, I would greatly appreciate it!

-Martin O'B

> Since it seems like such a great deal, I wanted to find out if there
> are any major problems I should look for when I test drive the camera.

It's made by Minolta.

Martin O'Brien wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am about to buy a 1 year old, slightly used, Dimage 7hi, which is
> currently sitting on a shelf, for $400, including all accessories, and
> a 256MB CF card.
>
> Since it seems like such a great deal, I wanted to find out if there
> are any major problems I should look for when I test drive the camera.
>
> ALSO, I'm meeting him Monday or Tuesday, so if you can help me in a
> jiffy, I would greatly appreciate it!
>
> -Martin O'B
>

None so far. Actually, none big or small for over a year. I just shot a
wedding with mine yesterday (not the first). It and my HD5600 flash
worked flawlessly as they alway have.

OK, there are a few design issues that I would like fixed, but I work
around them. In a very dark reception hall, it really has a hard time
autofocusing on anything. White dresses work better, but not perfect. I
doubt there are too many other digital cameras that get around this any
better.

It's also will miss a focus every now and then. I use the spot focus
only and sometimes it just seems to miss. Oh well, I usually shoot 2 or
3 of everything anyway so it's not much of a problem. Hey, I got spoiled
by the Canon EOS 3 for years. (Yes, a Canon user for 28 years.)

This camera has very noisy output at ISO 800. 400 isn't too good either.
There is a tiny bit of noise at 100, but Noise Ninja pretty well takes
care of it. I shoot mostly with flash and at 100 so that really isn't a
problem either. The few 800 shots I take usually end up as B&W and look
like 3200 film shots.

I love the way it handles. Most settings are by quick dials and buttons;
that's important in a fast wedding environment. The manual zoom is great
and has stayed tight. The 28-200mm works great for people shooting. The
big buffer means that I rarely miss a shot while it's processing; I
shoot most of the wedding using RAW. I also like the small size.

It works great for me in my digital wedding photo business. Well, at
least that's what my customers think.

Buy it. At $400 it's steal. If you won't, tell me where and I will.

Clyde

On Sun, 16 May 2004 06:48:57 -0700, Randall Ainsworth
<> wrote:

>> Since it seems like such a great deal, I wanted to find out if there
>> are any major problems I should look for when I test drive the camera.
>
>It's made by Minolta.


Gee, thanks alot. Your response was very ****ing useful.

Hitler. Nazi. Godwin.

There, the thread is dead, I guess.

-Martin O'Brien