Despite its small size, the DiMAGE G500 is packed with great image-making features. The camera gice the photographer total creative control. Color saturation, contrast, and sharpness can be controlled to create the picture you want. You can shoot full manual, aperature priortiy, shutter priority, or use the program modes. And a maximum 9X zoom ratio (3x optical, 3x Digital) provides powerful photographic potential. The lens is equivalent to a 39mm - 117mm zoom on a 35mm camera. Both Memory Sticks and SD Cards can be used alone or in combination. When both memory card types are used in the camera at the same time, up to 640MB of data can be saved depending on the capacity of the cards. The camera has a fast start up time, so you won't miss the great shots, and even has a macro mode. You won't be dissaponted.

BEST pic quality, BEST menus,BEST compact design, BEST VALUE (Rating: 5.00)
Review : i've researched Canon 400S Elph, Sony Cybershots, Minolta F100 - all that jazz (see dpreview.com, cnet.com and steves-digicams.com for thorough reviews) and nothing pocketable held up to this Minolta G500 (Olympus left out for consistently poor image quality and construction). Why is the G500 the best?

For starters, 5MP vs. 4 - not always the main concern, but it's easily the finest 5MP in its price range. Sure, Sony has some new 5MPs out that are only about $50 more (although the ones as small as the G500 are around $100 more) but they feel cheap, have inferior reviews, and lack the picture quality of this Minolta. The only real competition for high-res digicams that are highly-pocketable is the Canon Elph 400S, but this Minolta is at least comparable in every respect, and of course it has 25% more megapixels.

Makes fun camera shooting sounds when you snap pics. Gorgeous displays and intuitive controls. Quick and easy... start-up with cool green light on front. Zoom very quick - zips open and shut. great weight to it - not too heavy by any means, but feels solid in your hands - nice ergonomics. I spent $350 - nothing else around that price point compared. Buy it. Peace!

Excellent Camera (Rating: 5.00)
Review : This camera is excellent! I bought is two months ago and have taken hundreds of pictures with ease and great clarity. I definitely recommend this camera.

Excellent for the price (Rating: 4.00)
Review : This camera has a good number of features for the price.
The upsides include:
- easy to get started
- excellent resolution
- very easy to move pictures to computer
- cool power on/off feature
- good menu system and picture preview
- goo picture monitor (the little screen)
The bad things:
- takes too long to recharge the flash betwen photos
- takes a little too long for the camera to focus and shoot
- 16 MB card only holds about 10 pictures
- shouldn't make me remove battery to recharge

Great little camera (Rating: 5.00)
Review : Got this camera as a result of the reviews on here. As a summary of what most of them seem to say. It's great, battery life is good, picture quality is spot on. I've even used both memory formats though I didn't think I would. The two problems that seem to have been noticed by other people is red-eye and the amount of time it takes to take a photo. Though I have had red-eye in photos it's never been a problem really and I've never really seen a camera that didn't have red-eye of some sort. As for time taken between shots, I've compared it to a 3MP camera and it was faster, it's slower than my previous camera but that was only 1.4MP which I think has something to do with it.