These two cameras seem to be comparable for my needs except for one thing: 16 RAM buffer on Minolta.

Minolta owners: 1500's been touted to be able to produce 'rapid fire' and 'burst mode'. I do not plan to shoot many moving things, does the image-to-image speed really that much less with RAM than with CF?

A50 owners, is the 'flushing' of the bright colors very annoying? What is the image-to-image speed (time it takes for the camera to be ready for the next shot after the first one)?

Thanks.

-Roman

-- Roman Ginis (ginis@briefcase.com), July 02, 1999

Answers

You might want to compare the Minolta and Canon to the Epson 750Z

The web site below has a review on all 3.

http://www.megapixel.net/html/issueindex.html

-- Bob G. (rgreg88721@hotmail.com), July 02, 1999.

I returned a 400z precisely for this reason I found the colors not true to life I ended up purchasing a Minolta Dimage ex1500 and find the images excellent. B and H photo spent a lot of time with me comparing the actual output on glossy paper between the oly 400, Minolta and Oly 600 the tones on the Minolta were right on while the olys were not. I must warn the camera does have a couple of quirks. While the new version of the digita software correct some of these the lens clips part of the viewfinder when it is fully extended and the motor is noisy. But all worth it due to the image quality also check out the free scripts on the minolta website which give you choice of metering method(normal, spot, or center weighted) as well as flash compensation

-- michael (soundwatts@aol.com), July 02, 1999.

The A50 seems to be quick between pics. (seems to be 2 secs in normal mode). the rapid fire mode is quicker (seems about .8 secs). The bright "flushing" does bother me, but you can turn the exposure down on pics when you see the lcd is whiting out a bright area. however that usually makes other things too dark. I would like to see more comparisons with other cams because i think the A50's ability to show detail in shadows might be worth the tradeoff. I have to say that printed output from the A50 seems absolutely perfect, whereas the same images on my notebook tft screen seem duller. Just found this out after printing my first pic.

-- Mark Harpenau (mharpen@bigfoot.com), July 03, 1999.