Konica Minolta

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Konica Minolta was created by the merger of Konica and Minolta in 2003; the subsequent models were branded "Konica Minolta".

Konica Minolta announced in January 2006 that it would stop all its activities related to photography, such as camera design and production, analog or digital, as well as the development and production of film and photo paper.[1] It transferred its photographic know-how to Sony, which has developed DSLRs compatible with the Konica Minolta Dynax/Maxxum system.

Cameras

For cameras made before the companies merged, see Konica and Minolta. The very first new models from after the merger got the Minolta badge, too, and are listed below. Since Konica Minolta did not last long as a camera maker, all its products are listed.

Dynax/Maxxum/alpha

The Dynax/Maxxum/auto (Maxxum in North America, alpha in Japan, Dynax elsewhere) lenses are Minolta's 35mm autofocus SLR lenses.

The Dynax line of cameras are the line of cameras that use these lenses.

  • Minolta Dynax 7 / Maxxum 7 / alpha 7 - A reworked Minolta AF-SLR camera for 35mm film that uses the Dynax lenses
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Dynax/Maxxum/alpha lenses for the digital SLRs

  • 1:3,5-1:6,3/18-200mm
  • 1:3,5-1:5,6/18-70mm
  • 1:4,5-1:6,3/11-18mm

DiMAGE

Konica Minolta maintained the Dimage name that Minolta had used for digital cameras.

  • Pocket, interior zoom lens (Minolta origin):
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  • TTL EVF integral super-zoom lens, RAW/TIF/JPG, sensor-based anti-shake (Minolta origin):
  • TTL EVF integral super-zoom lens, JPG (Minolta origin):
  • Compact digital zoom (Konica origin):
  • MINOLTA DiMAGE G400
  • Konica Minolta DiMAGE G530
  • Konica Minolta DiMAGE G600

other digital

  • Konica Minolta DG5W
  • Konica Minolta DG4W
  • Konica Minolta DG3Z
  • Konica Minolta DG2

compact cameras

Konica Minolta reworked two of the older Minolta Riva/Freedom zoom models for 35 mm film

  • Konica Minolta zoom 130c DATE
  • Konica Minolta zoom 160c DATE

Lenses

Konica Minolta continued to produce camera lenses.

Links

  • announcement.