Minolta

Minolta is often thought of as a second rung camera manufacturer in the photography world, one step below Nikon and Canon. However, Minolta has been a pioneer in a number of ways. They were the first to develop the Autofocus SLR with the Maxxum/Dynax 7000. The Maxxum/Dynax 7 had a revolutionary user interface and the Dimage 7 in many ways created the Prosumer Digital catagory of cameras. They also generally have a very competitive price/performance ratio.

Minolta has had a small but dedicated following among some professional photographers.

One critisism of Minolta has been their slowness to get onboard with a digital SLR camera that was compatible with the Maxxum lenses. In late November 2004, Konica Minolta finally released the much anticipated Maxxum 7D DSLR.

In 2004 (?) Minolta merged with Konica to form Konica Minolta. All new camera's after that time were badged as Konica Minolta.

Minolta Cameras

• Minolta 110 Zoom SLR
• Minolta A
• Minolta A5
• Minolta CLE
• Minolta F-300
• Minolta Minoltina AL-S

35mm Rangefinder

• Minolta Hi-Matic 7
• Minolta Hi-Matic 7s
• Minolta Hi-Matic 7sII
• Minolta Hi-Matic 9
• Minolta Hi-Matic F
• Minolta HiMatic

35mm SLR (non-AF)

• Minolta SRT 100X
• Minolta SRT 101
• Minolta SRT 101b
• Minolta SRT 102
• Minolta SRT 202
• Minolta X-300
• Minolta X-700
• Minolta XD-7
• Minolta XD-11
• Minolta XK
• Minolta XM
• Minolta XT

Dynax/Maxxum

The Dynax/Maxxum (Maxxum in North America, Dynax elsewhere) line of Cameras is an Autofocus line of SLR cameras. The cameras are not compatible with the previous manual focus SLR lenses.

• Minolta Dynax 7000
• Minolta Dynax 5000
• Minolta Dynax 9000
• Minolta Dynax 7000i
• Minolta Dynax 9
• Minolta Dynax 7
• Minolta Dynax 5
• Minolta Dynax XTSi
• Maxxum 7D Digital SLR

Dimage

Minolta and Konica Minolta use the Dimage nameplate on all of the digital cameras.

• Minolta Dimage 7
• Minolta Dimage 7Hi
• Minolta Dimage 7i
• Minolta Dimage Xt
• Minolta Dimage E323