Die Minolta Dimage S 304 brilliert duch ein optimales Preis/Leistungsverhältnis. Es gibt, meines Wissens keine Kamera, zu solch günstigen Preis, mit 4-fach Zoom. Sie besticht durch eine brilliante Bildqualität, macht herrliche Fotos im automatik Modus und lässt auch im manuellen Einstellbereich keine Wünsche offen.
Ich kann diese Kamera nur jedem empfehlen der eine digitale Kompaktkamera sucht.

Die Minolta ist unschlagbar in Preis und Leistung - Nahezu keinen wunsch läßt diese kompakte kamera offen. Die Farben sind stichfrei und brilliant. In jedem Bereich des Zooms stellt diese Kamera perfekt scharf.

Ich hatte vorher eine Olympus 2,1 MP Kamera die bei weitem keine so tollen Bilder gemacht hat wie dieses Schmuckstück!

Für den Hobbyfotografen die optimale Lösung! Kaufenswert!

Ich bin mit dieser Camera äußerst zufrieden und würde die wieder kaufen. Im Vergleich zu anderen Modellen in dieser Preiskategorie bietet die Minolta S304 alleine schon aufgrund ihrer Vielseitigkeit Vorteile.
Neben den Automatik-Funktionen kann man im manuellen Modus fast wie mit einer Spiegelreflexcamera arbeiten. Zeit- und Blendenautomatik sowie rein manuelles Einstellen sind möglich. Der Kreativität sind so kaum Grenzen gesetzt. Für mich beeindruckend ist auch die Schnelligkeit, mit der die Bilder abgespeichert und auch wieder aufgerufen werden können. Der Autofokus arbeitet präzise und aufgrund der Mehrfeldmessung ist man immer im Bilde, welcher Bereich des Bildes als Fokuspunkt gesetzt wurde. Das vermeidet Unschärfe im falschen Bereich! Man kann so nämlich auch selber den Schärfebereich wählen.
Mit der guten Optik werden die Aufnahmen gestochen scharf und man kann auch mit Filtern arbeiten, da ein Gewinde vorhanden ist. Der eingebaute Blitz sorgt für eine prima Ausleuchtung des Raumes.
Der Stromverbrauch mit 1600 mAh - Akkus ist zufriedenstellend. Etwa 150 Bilder sind damit erreichbar, trotz aktivem LCD-Display.
Außerdem kann man noch 60 sec Filmchen mit 320*200 Auflösung aufnehmen (mit Ton!). Um mal eben ne kleine Sequenz per Mail zu senden, ist das voll OK.
Ich somit rundum zufrieden und auch diverse Testberichte unterstreichen meine Meinung.

I had the EXACT same experience as the Feb. 16 2004 reviewer! The only difference is that my Dimage had to be sent back to the factory straight from the box because it was filled with fine lint like particles. It NEVER has worked properly.....I will never purchase a Minolta anything! ever! and I'll tell all my friends....

Had this camera for a little over a year and it's a piece of junk. From day one it has never worked right. At least 90% of the time it locks up when I turn it on; the red LED light stays on and I have to open the battery door for thirty seconds to reset the camera. Sometimes when I change modes it locks up. I have no confidence that it will work when I turn it on. When it does "boot up" correctly I jump for joy (is this how it's suppose to be?). This thing also uses a lot of power, my 1800ma NiMh batteries (4 AA) only lasts about 25 pics at medium resolution and small image size. It's a shame because this camera is constructed well (metal case), takes terrific pictures (when it works), zoom is great, LCD screen is very clear for it's size, uses easy to get CompactFlash cards and batteries. It's out of warranty right now and I don't think it's worth trying to repair so it'll get tossed into the rubbish can; what a waste! Maybe I just got a lemon when I bought it but I will never buy another Minolta digital camera again, this S304 really tarnished Minolta's reputation in my books. I won't tell everyone "don't buy it"......it's up to you, maybe you won't get a lemon like I did.

The Minolta s304 is a fine camera if you can get it for significantly less than it's current retail price. The 3.3 megapixel resolution makes for some excellent daylight shots, and the 60 second movie recorder renders superb quality avi files. However, the camera suffers excessively from camera shake in low-light conditions. In addition, the manual setting for taking shots is difficult to manipulate...even for the intermediate level photographer. Night-time shots suffer from imbalance in color levels

Rechargeable Ni-MH batteries are an absolute must for this camera. My unit came with 4 AA alkaline batteries which expired after roughly 45 minutes of usage. I've owned my current set of 1850 mAH Kodak Photolifes for roughly a year now and they've consistently given the camera an operational battery life 2-3 days with regular on/off usage.

While the s304 has a workable zoom it fails to give adequate focus (in both automatic and manual modess), rendering blurred images - especially to subjects taken with the digital zoom.

I won't recommend this camera to a first-time buyer.

I looked at many many digital cameras before buying this one. I finally decided to buy it because it looked like it had everything I needed and it was cheaper than others. Well, I am really happy with my purchase. I bought this camera in 11/01 so I have had it for a long time. I have taken it to Hawaii and Florida and just around town and it has not failed me yet.

Indoor pictures are not great with this camera but they are not horrible. I have taken some professional looking pictures with this camera and look at them on the computer daily. I would not even think about using regular batteries with it though, that would be a joke. This camera does suck battery juice like crazzzy.

I enjoy taking pictures and this camera really has been great. I use webshots on my computer and I have my pictures of Hawaii cycle through on the desktop everyday, actually every 15 minutes. People are always commenting on them asking if they are professional pictures. I even printed some of them out and they looked great.

If you do not have a lot of money to spend and want a pretty good camera I would go with this one. It really has just about everything. ...

This is my second digital camera. My first being Sony Maciva. This camera is great and very easy to use. I was at first worried about battery life but I am very please with performance of batteries. I would recommend a charger and only high quality batteries. I also bought a 64 & 128 memory card. I never run out of space.
Highly recommend.