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In October 2003 Minolta merged with Konica to form Konica Minolta. All new cameras after that time were badged as Konica Minolta, although, with reference to camera designs, Minolta remained the dominant partner. The Minolta Alpha/Maxxum or Minolta Dynax 7 (as mine is, and as I shall from henceforth be calling it) was released in 2000 and was about as sophisticated as any 35mm SLR ever got. Minolta's marketing agency of record, The Manhattan-based William Esty Company branded the Minolta Maxxum, which was named by Creative Director George Morin. The round Minolta logo was developed by Art Director Herbert Clark with internationally renowned designer Saul Bass. The Minolta Freedom line of autofocus compacts were also branded at The William Esty Company, and named by Senior Copywriter Niels Peter Olsen. The Minolta Freedom line also included the Minolta Talker, the first point & shoot camera to incorporate a voice-chip that assisted with autofocus and flash operations. As a result of their innovations, the products that Minolta launched with The William Esty Company increased their camera sales from third, behind Canon & Nikon, to first in the U.S. marketplace. [ citation needed] As this film era came to an end the photographic giants produced some lovely cameras – Film SLRs were at their most sophisticated and in those last few years some amazing SLRs were created. This article seeks to look at one such camera from the company formerly known as Minolta. Minolta Dynax 7 / Alpha 7 / Maxxum 7 Minolta introduced features that became standard in all brands a few years later. Standardized features that were first introduced on Minolta models included multisensor light metering coupled to multiple AF sensors, automatic flash balance system, wireless TTL flash control, TTL-controlled full-time flash sync, and speedy front and rear wheels for shutter and aperture control. Special features introduced by Minolta are interactive LCD viewfinder display, setup memory, expansion program cards (discontinued), eye-activated startup, and infrared frame counter. [ citation needed] Merger with Konica [ edit ] The 2000 Minolta Dynax 7The 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] Tanimura Yoshihiko (谷村吉彦). "Supuringu kamera
Mint Munchies join After Eight brand" [ permanent dead link], irn-talkingshop.co.uk. Article dated 13 October 2006, retrieved 5 January 2007 [ dead link] Our brands - Chocolate and Sweets". nestle.co.uk. Archived from the original on 19 November 2008 . Retrieved 28 January 2015. Mint Munchies [were launched] in 1957, this product changed its name from Mintola to Mint Munchies in June 1995 Good list, but bodies are just light-tight boxes with some fancy buttons. The thing that sets Minolta apart from the crowd and makes the bodies worthwhile are the lenses. Leica licensed many of their designs. I can’t speak to their autofocus lenses, but I am a firm advocate for SR mount as possibly the best lens system ever devised. Most standard lenses from that era are more or less identical. The build quality of Minolta is on par with the best Canon or Nikon ever put out. Image quality is Leica levels of fantastic, but so are the others. What Minolta gives you are quirky and beautiful options. The 85mm Varisoft, with it’s variable softmess (clever name), is an ideal portrait lens. The VFC (Variable Field Curvature) lenses, 24 and 35mm are truly wild. The effect is difficult to describe, but amazing to behold. The 35 even has shift capability which, used in conjunction with the VFC can produce results that no other combination of lens and fancy mount adapter can ever hope to replicate. They had (for a time) the widest rectilinear prime available, and extremely high quality telephotos (as you mentioned). While never quite as fast as Canon’s telephotos, Minolta’s we’re generally more compact and easier for the hobby photographer to carry around while still producing amazing results. Kikan Classic Camera 14, p.38, says that the Minolta Anastigmat Nippon viewing lens of the Minoltaflex (I) was made by Chiyoda. The same source says on p.15 that the Sakai plant produced lenses from 1937, and this is also found in Francesch, p.25. In 1981, Minolta launched the CLE, a rangefinder camera with M-mount, the first one to have ( aperture-priority) automatic exposure. The metering system was of the "TTL OTF" type ( through the lens, reflected off the film), first introduced by Olympus in 1975 on the OM-2 SLR camera. The CLE was also the first Minolta camera to have TTL flash automation, together with the X-700 SLR introduced the same year. After the heady days of the XD/XE series, the X-700 marked a definite return to the amateur-level market. While the new camera had TTL flash, it was equipped with only a 1/60s maximum flash synch and an ordinary cloth horizontal-travel shutter, and the interior mechanisms utilized more cost-saving plastics. With a large investment in a new autofocus SLR design, Minolta decided to withdraw from building professional-level manual-focus SLR cameras.
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.
In 1982 the company's founder Kazuo Tashima stepped down as president of the company, and his son Hideo Tashima became his successor. Kazuo Tashima stayed in the company as chairman of the board until his death in 1985, at the age of 85. In August 2020, Nestlé launched a limited-edition variant of Munchies featuring a white chocolate shell. [6] If you’re someone that collects Minoltas it’s hard not to covet the XK. As Nikon and Canon vied to have the best professional system in the early seventies, Minolta jumped into the race with it’s own “full choice system.” Unlike their competitors, Minolta’s system boasted aperture-priority and a solid state electronic shutter. It also had six interchangeable viewfinders, 11 focusing screens, and manual shutter speeds from 1/2000 of a second to as slow as 16 seconds.In the 1970s Minolta and Leitz teamed up in a partnership that would see the two powerhouses share patents, technology, and product development. Two cameras that resulted from this partnership would become two of Minolta’s best ever. The Leica R3 is introduced. Minolta produces the R3, R4, and R5 models in the Leica R series. Subsequent cameras are built in Germany by Leica themselves. See for example the 1952 advertisement by Asanuma Shōkai for the Minolta Semi P reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.194.
Taniguchi, p.276 of ShashinKōgyō no.77 (article also reproduced in Tanimura, p.8 of Camera Collectors' News no.116), Francesch, p.19. 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 I guess there has been some misunderstanding. This blog post covers only mechanical adapters without any optical elements. And for those the statement mentioned by you holds true. If you don’t have lenses that allow the focus throw to go significantly beyond infinity, you won’t be able to focus to anywhere near infinity. Focusing to closer subjects might still be possible depending on the focal length of the lens used (in general less of a problem for longer lenses). Hence, some of those mechanical only adapters from SLR to SLR mounts (with similar flange focal distances) are often called “macro” adapters as they work as an adapter with included extension tube. 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. Taken from Minolta Fifty Years Chronicle (Minolta, November 1978) and "70 Jahre Minolta Kameratechnik" (Scheibel, 1999, ISBN 3-89506-191-3).
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Minolta had a line of digital point-and-shoot cameras to compete in the digital photography market. Their DiMAGE line included digital cameras and imaging software as well as film scanners. [ citation needed] Directly advertised and distributed by the company: advertisements dated 1930 and 1931 reproduced in Hagiya, p.9 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no.12, and in Awano, p.6 of the same magazine, were placed by Nichidoku Shashinki Shōten and have the Nichidoku logo, and all the brand names were clearly owned by the company. Konica had been the first to put autofocus into a 35mm camera, but it was a fixed lens "compact" camera; and Polaroid had been the first to put autofocus into an SLR camera, but it neither was 35mm nor was an interchangeable lens design.
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