Minolta DiMAGE G400 Review

(Excuse the poor quality of these screens but the DiMAGE G400 does not have a Video Out feature so these had to be photographed off of the color LCD.)

A typical playback screen display. Across the top is the folder and file numbers. Time and date of capture. On the bottom is the battery condition, image # / total # of images, SD indicates a Secure Digital type memory card, this will change to "MS" to indicate Memory Stick, 4M size, and Fine quality.

Pressing the 4-way selector up or down will display the extended image info - FILE SIZE 1591 KB, SHUTTer SPEED 1/60, F NUMBER (aperture) F3.4, FLASH AUTO ON.

While viewing an image fullscreen you can press the TELE zoom button and begin enlarging the image in steps all the way up 12x. This is good for checking for critical, focus, color or composition. Use the 4-way selector to move around inside of the image and the WIDE zoom button to step back out to the fullscreen image again.

Pressing the WIDE button when in playback displays nine thumbnail images. From here you can search through the stored images and select one for fullscreen playback or deletion.

Movie clips can be played back on the camera's LCD in fullscreen mode with the audio portion heard through the builtin speaker.

Play menu:

COPY & MOVE - Copy image data between SD and MS card
DPOF - Set DPOF (Digital Print Order Form) printing data
PROTECT - Protect images from deletion
RESIZE - Downsize image(s) to VGA 640x480
SLIDE SHOW - Begin slideshow playback on LCD

You can play voice memos that are attached to still images.