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Minolta later manufactured and sold an improved electronic version, the Minolta CLE with Auto Exposure, Off-The-Film TTL metering and TTL Flash metering, together with three M-Rokkor lenses, the 40mm / f2, 28mm / f2. 8 and 90mm / f4.
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Minolta and later
Of these the Canon EOS IX and the Nikon Pronea could use the existing 35 mm SLR lenses, whereas Minolta opted to create a new lens line-up later shared with an early digital SLR.
This range was introduced in 1985 with the Minolta Maxxum 7000, and culminated with the professional ( 1997 ) later made in a titanium body ( 9Ti ) and technically advanced 7 ( 1999 ).
The company resumed its pre-war activities, manufacturing binoculars and consumer camera lenses for Konishiroku and Chiyoda Kōgaku Seikō ( later Konica and Minolta respectively ).
Canon, like Minolta, chose to change its mount completely, introducing the EOS 600-series a few years later, breaking compatibility with the former FL and FD lens mounts.
Minolta and manufactured
Industrial fixed-head print heads are manufactured by these companies: Kodak Versamark, Trident, Xaar, Spectra ( Dimatix ), Hitachi / Ricoh, HP Scitex, Brother, Konica Minolta, Seiko Epson, and ToshibaTec ( a licensee of Xaar ).
While many subminiature cameras were inexpensive and poorly manufactured ( thus giving the format a bad name ), Minox, Tessina, Gami, Edixa, Rollei, Pentax and Minolta made quality cameras capable of producing fine results — even enlarged.
The DiMAGE G500 was a five megapixel compact digital camera manufactured by Konica Minolta in 2003.
* Minolta 9xi, a 35mm SLR camera designed and manufactured by Minolta
Minolta and sold
For some time after the merger between Konica and Minolta, both product lines continued to be sold, while research and development efforts were underway to create new products.
The Minolta X-700 manual-focus SLR is introduced ; this model is sold until 1999 and is enormously successful.
Although the FE2 sold well, it was not as popular as less expensive competing contemporary SLRs with a fancier feature set but vastly inferior internal design and construction quality – for example, the Canon A-1 ( 1978 ) or the Minolta X-700 ( 1982 ).
Minolta and improved
A further improved version of this shutter, spec ' ed for 100. 000 actuations, was used in the ( named Dynax 9 in Europe, α-9 in Japan ) in 1998 and Minolta Maxxum 9Ti ( named Dynax 9Ti in Europe, α-9Ti in Japan ) in 1999.
Minolta and electronic
It reportedly cost Leitz more to manufacture than it recouped in sales, and motivated the company to collaborate with Minolta for their next series of electronic cameras.
* Leica R3 – the first electronic Leitz SLR – 1976 to 1980, based upon the Minolta XE1 / 7.
It also survived the dramatic electronic growth of the M-series in the wake of the 1976 introduction of the landmark Canon AE-1, the autofocus ( AF ) SLR camera revolution following the landmark Minolta Maxxum 7000 in 1985 and the point-and-shoot ( P / S ) revolution following the confluence of cheap microchip electronics, high speed film and small aperture zoom lenses circa 1990.
Minolta and version
With the launch of the Coolscan 9000 ED Nikon introduced its most up-to-date film scanner which, like the Minolta Dimage scanners were the only film scanners that, due to a special version of Digital ICE, were able to scan Kodachrome film reliably both dust and scratch free.
Minolta and CLE
* 1981: Implementation of Minolta's invention and patent of TTL ( through-the-lens ) OTF ( off-the-film ) exposure metering: the Minolta CLE is the first 35mm rangefinder camera to feature TTL metering and aperture priority autoexposure.
Minolta and with
Along with the Minolta Tower ( formerly the Seagrams Tower and the Konica Minolta Tower, now called the Tower Hotel ), it is one of two towers in Canada with a view of the falls.
APS was mainly used for point and shoot amateur cameras, although some SLR systems were also created: Canon EOS IX, Minolta Vectis, Nikon Pronea with Nikon IX lenses.
From 1964, Leica produced a series of single-lens reflex cameras, beginning with the Leicaflex, followed by the Leicaflex SL, the Leicaflex SL2, and then the R series from R3 to R7, made in collaboration with the Minolta Corporation.
A Konica Minolta bizhub C451 with an attached finisher.
Many other manufacturers attempted to capitalize on the popularity of the Instamatic with their own 126 cameras, including Canon, Olympus, Minolta, Ricoh, Zeiss Ikon, and even Rollei.
Business cards can also be printed with a digital copier, which uses toner fused onto the surface of the card, however many modern printing firms instead utilise high end " Digital Presses ," now distinct from office copiers, which range from light production units such as the Bizhub 5500 from Konica Minolta, to state of the art units such as the latest HP Indigo Digital Presses.
Konica Minolta was formed by a merger between Japanese imaging firms Konica and Minolta, announced on January 7, 2003 with the Corporate Structure completing the re-organization in October 2003.
SLR camera service operations were handed over to Sony starting on March 31, 2006 and Sony has continued development of cameras that are compatible with Minolta autofocus lenses.
Originally, in the negotiations, Konica Minolta wanted a cooperation with Sony in camera equipment production rather than a sell-out deal, but Sony vehemently refused saying that it would either acquire everything or leave everything that has to do with the camera equipment sector of KM.
Shanghai Optical Co. ( Seagull ) purchased tools and production plant from Minolta at different times, making some X300 series for Minolta branding, and continues to release MD mount film SLRs compatible with the old system under the Seagull name.
Minolta and Auto
This rangefinder camera was adopted as the basic chassis for several excellent camera models, including the Konica Auto S3, Minolta 7sII, Revue 400se, Prinz 35ER, and Vivitar 35ES.
Minolta and TTL
* 1966: The Minolta SR-T 101 SLR camera is the worlds first with through-the-lens full aperture ( TTL ) light metering.
Minolta and metering
* Advanced Distance Integration, a Konica Minolta camera term for flash metering
Minolta and Flash
* Minolta Flash Compendium
Minolta and three
Although Konica and Nikkormat were major users of the Copal Square, many other brands including Asahi Pentax, Canon, Leica and Minolta continued to refine the Leica-type shutter for reliability, if not speed ; moving from three axis to four axis designs ( one control axis for each curtain drum axis, instead of one control for both drums ).
For this to happen, Yoong signed with Shane Beikoff racing to competed in the final three rounds of the Konica Minolta series.
Minolta and lenses
Other Tessar-type lenses include the Schneider Xenar, Agfa Solinar, Rodenstock Ysar, Kodak Ektar, Yashica Yashinon 80mm ( twin-lens-reflex design ), and Minolta Rokkor 75mm ( twin-lens-reflex design ).
* Holga plastic lenses have also been adapted to the Canon EOS, the Nikon f-mount, Pentax, Sony, Olympus and Minolta.
The range of 21 Sony lenses announced at that time also included only revisions of earlier Minolta designs, or models which had been in development, rebadged and with minor cosmetic changes.
The Sony Alpha range has remained compatible with all Minolta AF system lenses, and most accessories, from 1985 onwards.
In 2000 Minolta announced the introduction of Super Sonic Motor ( SSM ) focusing to a limited number of new lenses.
For many years, lenses made by the Minolta Camera Company were designated as " Rokkor ", named after this sacred mountain near Osaka, where the company was headquartered.
The Minolta 7000 had its AF sensors and the focusing drive inside the camera body, and as a result the lenses could be much smaller and cheaper.
Minolta introduced a new lens mount, the A system, breaking compatibility with its earlier manual-focus lenses in the MC and MD system.
True macro lenses, such as the Canon MP-E 65 mm f / 2. 8 or Minolta AF 3x-1x 1. 7-2. 8 Macro, can achieve higher magnification than life size, enabling photography of the structure of small insect eyes, snowflakes, and other minuscule objects.
Sigma makes autofocus lenses for the Sigma SA, Canon EF, Nikon F, Minolta / Sony α, Pentax K and Four Thirds lens mounts.
The studio operates multiple high-end optical motion capture setups provided by technology leading Motion analysis and Vicon, Vivid-900 3D scanner by Minolta and RED One camera with complete set of lenses, lighting and related computer equipment.
These lenses can be mounted on any Sony Alpha, but are specifically designed for the a100-a700 series and the earlier Konica Minolta Dynax 5D and 7D.
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