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- 5 out of 5
Great pocket camera
( - 4/26/05)The Minolta G500 is a great pocket camera. It starts up almost immediately and the shutter lag at about 1/10 of a second is extremely short. You can almost hide it in the palm of your hand, turn off any audio sounds, and unobtrusively snap away. Eight by ten prints are quite sharp with good detail, so it is great to put in your pocket when you are not sure whether you will be taking photos or not.
Shutter speed priority is great for action shots and a f stop of 2.8 allows shooting in low light. The flash is limited by some unpredictability in dispersion when the battery is not up to full charge and of course red eye is also a problem, although there is a double flash red eye reduction but this option does not seem to be worth the effort or the battery power.
A battery by the way, lasts through about 100 shots or a day of intensive shooting at an event.
Constant flash will of course reduce that number.
Noise is occasionally a problem but in the dark night street scenes, it is not present. On a 256 meg SD card, you can fit about 120 shots at the highest quality. Colour is quite good and even the digital zoom has produced an excellent running shot for me.
