Setup guide

MINOLTA
DiM A GE X20
World’s Smallest 2-Megapixel
Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom
The DiMAGE X20 easily fits into your pocket – and fits easily into your life. Small,
speedy and stylish, you will want to have this camera with you at all times. The
world’s smallest and lightest 2-megapixel digital camera with a 3x optical zoom, the
tiny and easy-to-use DiMAGE X20 combines responsive performance and a user-
friendly design with an incredible non-extending zoom lens
and fast startup time. A user simply turns the camera on, and
in one second the camera is ready to take pictures. It also
incorporates numerous innovative features such as self-portrait
mode, multi-frame drive mode, Image Pasting, movie mode,
noise reduction function and web communications capability.
◆ The DiMAGE X20 is built around a high-
precision electro-optical system designed
to maximize image quality. The system
uses a 2.1 megapixel primary-color CCD
with 2.0 million effective pixels for fine
images. This pixel resolution can produce
letter size 150 dpi prints or postcard size
photo-quality prints.
◆ The camera’s high-performance five-point
autofocus system makes taking beautiful,
sharp images simple. Place the subject
anywhere within the extra-wide focus
frames and the camera will do the rest.
The camera uses visual and audio signals
to confirm focus.
◆ Dark noise, a persistent problem in digital
photography, manifests itself by giving a
grainy or sandy appearance to images
taken with long exposures. The DiMAGE
X20 combats this with a noise-reduction
function that automatically activates for
exposures of one second or longer.
◆ Advanced multi-segment metering system
uses information about subject location
from the AF system along with 256 meter-
ing segments to calculate the optimum
exposure based on subject and back-
ground brightness. No need to worry that
the subject will lost in deep shadows or
washed out in front of dark backgrounds.
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FEATURES
Creative Control
◆ Minolta’s new multi-frame drive mode,
captures nine sequential frames of a
single event in one picture like the
reaction of a friend as they walk in on a
surprise party. The nine images are laid
out in a 3 x 3 grid in a single frame.
◆ The portrait mode controls exposure,
flash, and image processing to
emphasize the subject’s natural skin
tone. And for something a little
different, images can be captured in
one of five monochrome modes; the
traditional grays of black and white,
the warmth and ageless quality of sepia,
or red, green, and blue tones to add fun
or feeling.
◆ Image Pasting allows one image to be
placed within another for a creative
touch. After choosing the background
image, a user simply selects the frame
shape and size and positions it over the
chosen background image. The live
image is displayed inside the selected
frame. After composing the subject in
the frame the user presses the shutter
button to embed and save the image.
◆ Close-up pictures can be made with the
DiMAGE X20. The lens focuses down to
3.9 inches at all focal lengths without
the need of a separate function. This
covers an area of about 1.6 x 1.2 inches.
High Quality Images
◆ The DiMAGE X20 uses Minolta’s unobtrusive non-extending zoom lens. This revolutionary
design uses internal folded optics, which does not change the slim profile of the camera
even while recording. The 3x optical zoom, equivalent to a 37 – 111mm lens on a 35mm
camera, is assisted by a 4x digital zoom giving you a seamless zoom range of 12x.
The DiMAGE X20 makes face-to-face
conversations possible with friends or
family when it is used as a remote
camera for web communication. Using
the supplied USB cable you can connect
the camera to a Windows-based PC with
compatible application such as
Microsoft Net Meeting.