Konica Minolta Dimage X50 5MP Digital Camera with 2.8x Optical Zoom

great pics, easy to use, overall great camera but...as other reviewers wrote, my LCD broke. I put it in the case which is designed for the camera and placed the camera with the LCD side facing out (never thought about it) this puts the snap right on the LCD screen. placed the camera in my handbag and leaned back. the snap pressed on the LCD and broke the camera. I can still take pics but can't see if they look good and can't see what setting the camera is on. wrote to Minolta and have not gotten a response. would I buy another one? probably cause the price was reasonable and pics good but mad at minolta.

As a loyal customer of Minolta, I purchased the x50 with confidence. While the camera has some of the high-quality expectations and features of a Minolta, as previous customers have noted, the casing and the battery cover are extremely flimsy and not the expected Minolta quality. After using the camera only 6 months, the LCD screen displayed a red line and then days later multiple colored lines, rendering the screen useless. After not receiving contact from the repair center for over a month, I contacted them. Their response was the infamous "impact damage" which was not covered by the warranty and the repair cost was their infamous $148. I talked with numerous customer (dis)service representatives and managers in an effort to determine how impact damage can happen during just normal usage. They said that "if you carry your camera in your pocket and get even a slight bump that can cause impact damage". Seems like a flimsy excuse for a flimsy camera!

Great picture quality, very good price, easy to use and operate, takes regular SD cards and has a good battery life.

The Dimage x50 looked to be everything I wanted in a digital camera; compact-fit in my pocket, quick-snappy startup, nice picture quality-5 mega pixels, etc. I WAS very pleased with my purchase - until I dropped the camera.I simply fumbled it while sliding it in my front pants pocket. The camera fell no more than couple feet. But, that was the end of it. The screen went completely white and never recovered. I sent it to Minolta for warranty repair. They wanted to charge me $140 for "impact damage". I explained to them that I felt that a $300 camera should be able to handle a short drop without total system failure. They didn't agree.I would NOT recommend this camera. It design is too fragile.

This is my 3rd Konica Minolta Dimage X50 camera in about 10-15 years. I wear them out! Or my wife does. This is the best camera with such a fast shutter...I can take pics on bike trips and not skip a beat. The fastest shutter on any camera in this price range makes it work for me. I don't want to miss shots. My wife has another kind and is always missing shots. )O: Overall, speedy shipment, just as described. Thank you!

This is one cool camera...it has all the buzzwords and is -physically - a dream. I wish I had known that the images would not quite be up to snuff. Before you disregard my post as flamebait or trolling by a camera snob, let me say that my last digital camera - which has very good image quality - was a $199 Fuji Finepix 1.3MP bought 4 years ago.The images are quite noisy in low contrast areas, especially in indoor lighting conditions. The only way to mitigate the problem is to manually set the ISO to its lowest value - 50 - which will cause a lot of flash work on a camera with an f/5 telephoto lens. At the lowest setting, however, the pictures seem very nice. Although this workaround does allow it to produce acceptable images, you'll need to be more interested in the "coolness" of this super-mini camera to feel that its worth $350.I have a post over at steve's digicams forums which shows the noise problem. Just in case Amazon checks for links, you'll have to cut and paste this link into your browser:(...)

Great little camera.....fits in my purse. I love the fact that it has a rechargeable battery as I bought a second one so I am always ready!!! The battery holds a charge a long time. Good pictures and I find the camera easy to use.It has quite a zoom feature too. It has many features that I should use but I have not taken the time to learn about.

I bought this camera and within 6 months the screen broke. I would not recommend buying this camera, the company does not have a warranty and there is nothing to do once it is broken.