Camera Type

Digital SLR with built-in flash and interchangeable lenses 

Lens Mount  

Minolta A-type bayonet mount

Image Capture        

Image Sensor: Interline primary color CCD (23.5 mm x 15.7 mm) with interlace scan
Number of Pixels (approximately): Total: 6.3 million, Effective: 6.1 million
Sensitivity: Auto, ISO 100 / 200 / 400 / 800 / 1600 / 3200 equivalent
White Balance Control Automatic: Preset (Daylight, Shade, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent, Flash), Custom, Color temperature (2500 - 9900 k with 19-step Magenta / Green compensation)

Recording

Recording Media: Type I and Type II CompactFlash Cards, Microdrive, SD Memory Card*, MultiMediaCard*
* with optional SD-CF1
File format: JPEG, RAW (DCF 2.0 compliant, DPOF supported by printing functions in ver.1.1, Exif 2.21)
Number of Recorded Pixels: L: 3008 x 2000, M: 2256 x 1496, S: 1504 x 1000
Storage Capacity: Approximate storage capacity of a 256MB:

Color Mode: Natural, Natural Plus, Portrait, Landscape, Sunset, Night View, Night Portrait, Black & White, Adobe RGB, Embedded Adobe RGB. Except for Adobe RGB and Embedded Adobe RGB, all other color modes use the sRGB color space.
Image Quality Mode: Standard, Fine, Extra-Fine, RAW, RAW+JPEG
Contrast / Saturation / Sharpness: 5 steps: +2, -1, +-0, +1, +2
Noise Reduction: Available at shutter speeds longer than 1 second
Delete Function: Single, multiple, or all frames in a folder / memory card can be deleted. Folders can be deleted in the File Browser.

Playback

LCD Monitor: 2.5-inch TFT color
Total Pixels: 115,000
Playback Mode: Single-frame (Image only, Image and information), Histogram with luminance limit display, Index (4, 9, or 16 frames), Enlarged playback (up to approximately 5x), File Browser, Slideshow, manual and auto rotation

Autofocus System

Type: (TTL) phase-detection system
Sensor: CCD line sensors (9 points, 8 lines with center cross-hair sensor)
Sensitivity Range: -1 EV - 18 EV (at ISO 100 equivalent)
Main Functions: Wide AF area, spot AF area, and 9 local AF areas with Focus Area Selection. AF-A / AF-S / AF-C / DMF. Predictive Focus Control (with moving subjects in AF-A and AF-C), auto-tracking focus-point display
AF Illuminator: Available with built-in flash.
Range: 3.3 ft. ?C 16.4 ft. (1 m - 5 m)

Autoexposure System

Metering Type: TTL metering; multi-segment metering, Center-weighted metering, Spot metering
Metering Cell: 14-segment honeycomb-pattern SPC
Metering Range:  +1 EV - +20 EV (+4 EV to +20 EV with Spot metering), (at ISO 100 with f/1.4 lens)
Exposure  Modes: Auto recording / P (with program shift), A, S, M, and Portrait, Sports Action, Landscape, Sunset, and Night Portrait Digital Subject Programs
Exposure Compensation: ??2 EV in 1/3 EV increments
AE Lock: Automatically activated with AF lock, available via AEL button

Built-In-Flash

Flash Metering System: ADI / Pre-flash TTL flash metering
Flash Compensation: ??2 EV in 1/3 EV increments
Guide No. GN 12 (in meters at ISO 100)
Recycling Time: Approximately 3 seconds
Control: Manual (raise the flash to activate)
Flash Modes: Fill Flash, Red-eye reduction (via pre-flash), Rear Sync flash, (Wireless / Remote off-camera flash, High-speed sync available with Program Flash 5600HS(D) / 3600HS(D)), Slow sync activated via AE lock button

Shutter

Type: Electronically-controlled, vertical-traverse, focal-plane typeSpeed Range: 1/4000 second - 30 seconds, bulb exposures possible??
Flash Sync Speed: 1/160 second (with Anti-Shake off), 1/125 second (with Anti-Shake on)

Viewfinder

Type: Fixed eye-level system with roof mirror type pentaprism
Focusing Screen: Spherical Acute Matte
Field of View: 95 % 
Magnification: 0.83 x with 50mm lens at infinity, -1 m-1 
Eye Relief: Approximately 20 mm from the eyepiece, 16 mm from the eyepiece frame at -1 diopter (-1m-1)
Diopter Control: -2.5 - +1.0 m-1

Drive 

Drive Mode: Single-frame advance, Continuous advance, 10 seconds and 2 seconds Self-timer, Single-frame advance bracketing, Continuous-advance bracketing. 
Continuous-advance rate: Approximately 3 frames per second, Maximum 5 frames (RAW), maximum 3 frames (RAW+JPEG)
Exposure Bracketing: With 0.3 EV / 0.7 EV increments, 3 frames

Anti-Shake

System: CCD-Shift mechanism
Anti-Shake Display: Anti-Shake scale in viewfinder
Anti-Shake Compensation: Approximately 2 EV - 3 EV decrease in shutter speed (varies according to shooting conditions and lens used)

Rechargeable Lithium-ion battery NP-400
Battery Performance: Number of frames recorded: approximately 550 (CIPA measurement), approximately 700 (Konica Minolta measurement)
External Power Source: 6 V DC (with AC adapter AC-11)

Other

Other Functions: Instant playback, Customization, Zone Matching, Depth-of-field preview