Konica Minolta DiMAGE A200 Review

A typical Play mode screen. When you flip the Mode Switch to the Play position the last image captured is displayed full screen with overlay data for file folder and number, image resolution and quality, time and date. This same display is also shown when using the QuickView function from Record mode.

When an image is displayed full screen in Play or QuickView mode you can press the Up switch to display the histogram along with the shutter speed, aperture, white balance setting, ISO speed and exposure compensation.

Pressing the Magnifying Glass "-" button toggles the index mode shown above. Each page displays 9 thumbnail images so you can rapidly search through stored images.

The full screen playback image can be enlarged up to 10x in many incremental steps by pressing the Magnifying Glass "+" button and then using the up or down portion of the 4-way controller. To scroll around, press the center button and then use the 4-way selector, press the center button again to return to zoom mode.

Movie clips can be viewed on the EVF, LCD or a television if you have hooked up the audio-video cable. The audio portion can be heard on the internal speaker when played back in-camera.

You can capture individual frames from movie clips so you can use movie mode as a super-fast continuous capture mode if all you need are 800x600 or 640x480 size images.

You can edit the length of movie clips in-camera.

The Play mode menu:

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Delete - Delete current frame, marked frames or all frames
Format - Format the CF card
Lock - Lock (protect) current frame, marked frames, all frames
View folder - Select the image folder
Folder name - Specify the folders viewed during playback
Movie edit - Edit the length of a movie clip

Slideshow - Start automatic playback
DPOF set - Select images for DPOF printing
Date imprint - Print date of capture with each print
Index Print - Print index sheet
Cancel print - Remove DPOF information

Copy - Copy image files from one card to another
Email copy - Copy and resize image to 640x480 for email
Mag setup - Set initial zoomed playback magnification factor

SETUP menu options:

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LCDbrightness - Adjust the LCD brightness
Lens acc. - Specify wide angle or telephoto lens adapter
Transfer mode - USB mode: Data storage or computer control
Date/Time set - Set the time and date
Video output - NTSC or PAL format
Language - Chose the menu language

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Shortcut help - Assign the shortcut help button
File#memory - Sequentially number images
Folder name - Choose the method for creating folder names
Select folder - Select the active image folder
New folder - Create a new image folder

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Reset default - Return all settings to factory default
Audio signals - Choose a sound effect for camera beeps
Focus signal - Choose a sound effect for focus confirm beep
Shutter FX - Choose a sound effect for the shutter
Volume - Adjust the volume of sound effects
Power save - 1, 3, 5 or 10 minutes to auto power off

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Anti-shake - Display + Exposure or just Exposure
Delete conf - Confirm delete requests, Yes or No