#MINOLTA CAMERA HISTORY PROFESSIONAL#
#MINOLTA CAMERA HISTORY SERIES#

Its not beat up or scratched but the outside of the case is well-worn. This camera (with the voice turned off) is quiet and fun!!! Whoever owned it before used it well. It has an extensive range of shutter speeds, down to several seconds, and can take film speeds up to 1000! It appears to be from 1980 or thereabouts, not very large and fairly well built. The flash appears to be metered as it did NOT have that overexposed 'blast' appearance many of these cameras have while shooting in dark areas. A check roll run through the unit showed that it took really excellent pictures. I found it at a sidewalk sale complete in its original white and blue minolta box. Surprisingly right now, my FAVORITE camera is a Minolta AF TALKER (Little tinny oriental sounding voice tells you 'no film' or 'checkkk-distan'. Well folks, since there is no specific forum for older autofocus FILM point and shoots, I parked myself here for a moment. John Falkenstine Patron Prolific Poster, 10:29 p.m. personally i don't care too much about Konica part :( The Minolta DiMAGE 7 features 5 megapixels resolution and 7x optical zoom.Дў002 Marketing of the first digital camera with folded 3X optical zoom unit in only 20mm-thick bodyДў003 Dimage A1 first Digital camera with in the body stabilisation (AS)Дў003 Konica Minolta Holdings Inc establishedДў004 Dimage A2 first (and the only currently) digital camera with 922,000 pixels EVFДў004 Dynax / Maxxum 7D First SLR camera with in body stabilisation.

#MINOLTA CAMERA HISTORY PROFESSIONAL#

The Minolta MAXXUM 9 autofocus SLR targets professional photographers.ДЎ988 Marketing of a compact spectrophotometer with the worldвЂ™s first easy-to-use spectral sensorДў001. The Minolta DiMAGE ( removable rotating lens)ДЎ998.

#MINOLTA CAMERA HISTORY SERIES#

Minolta VECTIS series that uses Advanced Photo System (APS).ДЎ997. The Minolta RD-175 is a SLR style 1.75 megapixels digital camera.ДЎ996. to reflect the fact that it sells much more than cameras.ДЎ995. Company changes name to Minolta Co., Ltd. The Minolta MAXXUM 9xi is the world's first auto-focus SLR camera with a shutter speed of 1/12,000 sec.ДЎ994. The Minolta MAXXUM 7000i is the world's first auto-focus SLR camera with an intelligent card system.ДЎ992. The Minolta Weathermatic Dual 35 is the world's first water and dust resistant dual focal point compact camera.ДЎ988. Minolta MAXXUM-7000, the world's first autofocus SLRДЎ988. Introduction of the Minolta X-700 SLR.ДЎ985. The Minolta CLE is the world's first 35mm range meter linked TTL-AE camera.ДЎ981. Leica and Minolta introduce the Leica R3.ДЎ981. Minolta CL is Minolta's first camera produced in collaboration with Leica.ДЎ975 The world's first 35mm compact camera with built-in flash and AE functions is released.ДЎ976. Cooperation agreement with Ernst Leitz Wetzlar, ( Leica )ДЎ973.

The Minolta SR-T101 SLR camera features through-the-lens (TTL) light metering.ДЎ972. Company officially changes its name to Minolta Camera Co., Ltd.ДЎ966. The Minolta SR-2 is Minolta's first SLR camera.ДЎ962 Hi-Matic camera used by astronaut John Glenn on Friendship 7ДЎ962. Name changed to Chiyoda Kogaku SeikoДЎ940 first lens with the Rokkor (200mm f4.5 Rokkor )ДЎ946 Worlds's first camera with a coated lensДЎ958. 'Nifcalette' Minolta's first cameraДЎ931 the name was changed to Molta Goshi Kaisha.ДЎ937, the Minolta Flex is the world first double-lens reflex cameraДЎ937. Then at some point i will put together all info and make appropriate web pages.ДЎ928 Nichi-Doku ('Japan-German') Shashinki Shoten established by Kazuo TashimaДЎ929. You can contribute here with all the info you may have, adding links, images etc.

I have made a quick list (prone to errors). It would be nice to have a nice summary about minolta history.

Minolta camera history