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Minolta also invested in APS ( Advanced Photo System) film-format cameras, most notably with the Vectis line of SLR cameras beginning in 1996. APS later proved to be a technological dead end, as the cameras did not sell as hoped. Digital photography was entering the marketplace, and Minolta eventually discontinued all APS camera production. [ citation needed] Other developments [ edit ] The first Leica compact camera, made by Minolta (1989-1991) In the late 1950s and 1960s, Minolta competed in the medium-format roll film camera market with the Autocord series of TLR (twin-lens reflex) cameras. Until Konica Minolta announced their withdrawal plan in 2006, they made Maxxum/Dynax digital and film-based cameras (retaining the different names in the different markets), improving the design while maintaining the basic concepts. The Maxxum 4 is a low-priced 35mm SLR with an A-type bayonet mount, built-in flash, autoexposure, predictive autofocus, electronically controlled vertical-traverse focal plane shutter, and through-the-lens (TTL) phase-detection focusing and metering. In advertising literature, Minolta claimed that the Maxxum 4 was the most compact 35mm AF SLR, and the second fastest at autofocusing, while the Maxxum 5 was the fastest at autofocusing. These cameras were, however, intended for the consumer end of the market. [ citation needed] I have to agree with Jeb Inge the difficulty is choosing. I have a collection of Minoltas and it is very difficult to choose between them. I started with a SR-T 101 in about 1979 and still regard this as a fine camera, the XD is a fine instrument as is the XE but the manual focus model that i use most is the X570 with a motor drive. Sakai, Itami, Honsha: Awano, p.7 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no.12. Sakai, Itami, Nishinomiya: Francesch, p.27. This is confirmed for Nishinomiya by Tanimura, p.99 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no.12.

The production of Rokkor lenses began in 1940, but they were only for military use. [22] It also produced military ordnance, including hand-held cameras for aerial reconnaissance. The civilian camera production was stopped around 1943. [23] At about that time, the company apparently made one or more prototypes of an interchangeable-lens TLR camera, which was the first 6×6 TLR in the world to have interchangeable lenses. In 1950, Minolta developed a planetarium projector, the first-ever made in Japan, beginning the company's connection to astronomical optics. John Glenn took a Minolta Hi-Matic rangefinder 35mm camera aboard the spacecraft Friendship 7 in 1962, and in 1968, Apollo 8 orbited the Moon with a Minolta Space Meter aboard. [ citation needed] The three original plants of Mukogawa, Amagasaki, Sakai ended up participating to the war effort. [24] A fourth plant was opened in Komatsu (小松) in 1939, initially specialized in machine tools. [25] In 1942, the Japanese Navy asked the company to open a glass melting facility; the new plant was built in Itami and only operational in 1944. [26] In 1943, the company also took over Fujimoto's plant in the city of Nishinomiya (the former Neumann & Heilemann factory), which became Chiyoda's Nishinomiya (西宮) plant. [27] It perhaps continued the production of Fujimoto leaf shutters for a short time. [28] area: Minolta used this expression to indicate all other export markets than North America and Europe. The company resumed camera production shortly after the war with the Semi Minolta III. This camera was equipped with a Rokkor 75/3.5 that was the first Japanese coated lens commercially available, and also the first lens made by the company for civilian use. [31] The company also absorbed the optical section of the Toyokawa Navy Arsenal (Aichi prefecture), which became the Toyokawa (豊川) plant in November 1946. [32] The Memo of 1949 was Minoltas first 35mm camera, again a sophisticated bakelite camera which already had a rapid film advance lever.Konica Minolta has been developing solutions and related technologies for planetariums in Japan since 1958. Having adopted and refined numerous technologies in this field over the years, Konica Minolta is responding to the needs of planetarium operators throughout Japan, who are interested in making use of full-dome movies, computer graphics, video projections and multimedia strategies. Additionally, Konica Minolta has provided the world's first digital X-ray mammography systems to apply phase contrast technology, providing the ultimate image quality by combining high sharpness and granularity with the use of computer-aided detection of shadows indicating suspected breast cancer lesions. The product line contains no artificial colours, flavours & preservatives. The individual chocolates include soft caramel (24%) and crisp biscuit centre (8%). Awano Mikio (粟野幹男). "Minoruta ryakushi" (ミノルタ略史, Minolta short history). Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュー クラシックカメラ専科) / Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras no.12, October 1988. No ISBN number. Minoruta kamera no subete (ミノルタカメラのすべて, special issue on Minolta). Pp.6–8.

Minolta SR-T303 f/2.8 35mm shift lens, 11mm maximum shift Minolta XG-1 Minolta X-700 Single-lens reflex cameras [ edit ]Minolta Co., Ltd. ( ミノルタ, Minoruta) was a Japanese manufacturer of cameras, camera accessories, photocopiers, fax machines, and laser printers. Minolta Co., Ltd., which is also known simply as Minolta, was founded in Osaka, Japan, in 1928 as Nichi-Doku Shashinki Shōten ( 日独写真機商店, meaning Japanese-German camera shop). It made the first integrated autofocus 35mm SLR camera system. In 1931, the company adopted its final name, an acronym for " Mechanism, Instruments, Optics, and Lenses by Tashima". [1] [ third-party source needed] Optical section of the Toyokawa Navy Arsenal: Awano, p.7 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no.12. Date: Francesch, p.29. Minolta also released three M-mount lenses in cooperation with Leica, the M-Rokkor 28mm 1:2.8, 40mm 1:2 and 90mm 1:4.

Chabo, Elena (2021-06-23). "You can now get Salted Caramel Fudge Munchies". Good Housekeeping . Retrieved 2022-07-19. The Minolta 7000 AF SLR camera was introduced in 1985. It was the world's first "in-body" autofocus SLR. Before this time manufacturers had dabbled with lenses that focused themselves but that fitted their existing, manual-focus SLR cameras. Unlike other manufacturers, Minolta invested much of its resources in the new autofocus cameras, at the expense of its manual focus SLRs, which were repositioned as amateur level cameras. It was the first manufacturer to put the mechanism and electronics for the autofocus system into its SLR camera bodies and so the modern SLR was born. [36] The rest of the camera had an advanced design, with liquid crystal screen display, built-in film winder, and a body built largely of plastics.Minolta entered the highly competitive 35mm compact camera market in the 1980s and transitioned from older rangefinder designs to "point-and-shoot" (P&S) electronic autofocus/autowind cameras. Minolta, like other major manufacturers faced with low-cost competition from elsewhere in Asia, found it difficult to build quality P&S cameras at a cost the consumer was willing to pay, and was forced to offshore production, gradually redesigning successive cameras to reduce cost and maintain profit margins. [ citation needed] Autofocus SLRs [ edit ] Minolta Hi-matic AF-d Infrared negatives fogged by the infrared beam frame counting mechanism of a Minolta Maxxum 4 Nearly every manufacturer has a different mount so you need to make sure that your adapter fits both the camera and the lens. Sony E-Mount Film cameras had nigh on a century of dominance of photography, but at the turn of the last century, their days were numbered. The last-gasp innovation of APS film had not set the world on fire and looming on the horizon were digital cameras that could record our lives, produce instant results that we could immediately review and push our expectations of image quality and light sensitivity beyond what is possible using chemistry.

As a result, Minolta has been criticized for its slowness to bring out modern, competitive digital SLR cameras for the popular SLR photography market, compatible with the many popular Alpha/Dynax/Maxxum-mount lenses in use. In late November 2004, the new Konica Minolta company finally released the much anticipated Konica Minolta Alpha/Dynax/Maxxum 7D Digital SLR and the innovation continued. What sets the 7D DSLR apart from the competition is the built-in image stabilization which works with any electronic autofocus lens attached to the camera body. Konica Minolta Healthcare Business provides solutions for digital radiography and ultrasound, integrated diagnostic information management and medical IT system solutions for hospitals and clinics. Compared with film scanning, digital radiography (DR) not only reduces X-ray radiation exposure for patients but can also display high-resolution images immediately after scanning.As of spring 2006, Konica Minolta has withdrawn from the camera business [38] entirely. The digital camera manufacturing assets have been acquired by Sony, but film camera production is ceasing, and the film and mini-lab divisions are set to close within a year.