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 (see also Konica Minolta).

Minolta Cameras

35mm Rangefinder

• Minolta 24 Rapid (16 24x24mm exposures on 35mm film)
• Minolta 35
• Minolta 35 II
• Minolta 35 IIB
• Minolta A
• Minolta A2
• Minolta A2 LT
• Minolta A3
• Minolta A5
• Minolta AL
• Minolta AL2
• Minolta ALS
• Minolta ALE
• Minolta ALF
• Minolta/Leitz CL
• Minolta CLE
• Minolta Electro Shot
• Minolta Hi-Matic 11
• Minolta Hi-Matic 7
• Minolta Hi-Matic 7s
• Minolta Hi-Matic 7sII / Revue 400 SE
• Minolta Hi-Matic 9
• Minolta Hi-Matic CS
• Minolta Hi-Matic E
• Minolta Hi-Matic ES
• Minolta Hi-Matic F
• Minolta Hi-Matic FP
• Minolta HiMatic / Ansco Autoset
• [[Minolta Minoltina AL-S]
• Minolta Minoltina-S
• Minolta Super A
• Minolta Uniomat / Ansco Anscoset
• Minolta Uniomat II
• Minolta Uniomat III / Ansco Anscoset III
• Minolta V2
• Minolta V3

35mm Viewfinder

• Minolta Autowide
• Minolta f12
• Minolta F35 Big Finder
• Minolta Freedom I
• Minolta FS-E II
• Minolta Hi-Matic 5
• Minolta Hi-Matic C
• Minolta Hi-Matic CSII
• Minolta Hi-Matic G
• Minolta Hi-Matic G2
• Minolta Hi-Matic GF
• Minolta Hi-Matic S
• Minolta Hi-Matic S2
• Minolta Hi-Matic SD
• Minolta Hi-Matic SD2
• Minolta Memo
• Minolta Minoltina-P
• Minolta Repo (half-frame)
• Minolta Repo-S (half-frame)

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

35mm SLR AF (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 300si
• Minolta Dynax 303si
• Minolta Dynax 3xi
• Minolta Dynax 4
• Minolta Dynax 40
• Minolta Dynax 404si
• Minolta Dynax 5
• Minolta Dynax 5xi
• Minolta Dynax 5000
• Minolta Dynax 5000i
• Minolta Dynax 500si / Maxxum 400si
• Minolta Dynax 500si Super / Maxxum 500si
• Minolta Dynax 505si / Maxxum HTsi
• Minolta Dynax 505si Super / Maxxum XTsi
• Minolta Dynax 60
• Minolta Dynax 600si Classic
• Minolta Dynax 7
• Minolta Dynax 7000
• Minolta Dynax 7000i
• Minolta Dynax 700si
• Minolta Dynax 7xi
• Minolta Dynax 8000i
• Minolta Dynax 800si
• Minolta Dynax 9000
• Minolta Dynax 9
• Minolta Dynax 9xi
• Minolta Dynax XTSi

Other Film Cameras

• Minolta 110 Zoom SLR

Digital

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 F300
• Minolta Dimage Xt
• Minolta Dimage E323
• Maxxum 7D Digital SLR

Medium Format

• Autocord