Konica Minolta

Konica Minolta was created by the merger of Konica and Minolta in 2003. All new cameras created since then have got the Konica Minolta badge. One of the best new products of the company was the film scanner Scan Elite 5400 II . Another success was the production of lenses and digicam units for mobile phones.

Konica Minolta has announced in January 2006 that it would stop all their 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. They will transfer their digital SLR know-how to Sony, who will develop DSLRs compatible with the Dynax/Maxxum system.

Cameras

Existing camera models from before the merger still had the previous badges of Konica or Minolta (some even got the Konica Minolta label) and are listed on the appropriate pages. The very first new models from after the merger got the Minolta badge, too, and are listed below. Since the merged company was a short episode in photo industry's history all of Konica Minolta's new and reworked cameras are listed.

Dynax/Maxxum/alpha

The Dynax/Maxxum (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

• Konica Minolta Dynax 5D / Maxxum 5D / alpha Sweet DIGITAL - A similar SLR camera for Dynax lenses with plastic body
• Konica Minolta Dynax 7D / Maxxum 7D / alpha-7 DIGITAL - A digital SLR camera that uses the Dynax lenses

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 the digital cameras.

• Pocket, interior zoom lens (Minolta origin):

• Konica Minolta DiMAGE X1
• Konica Minolta DiMAGE X21

• Konica Minolta DiMAGE X31
• Konica Minolta DiMAGE X60
• Konica Minolta DiMAGE X50
• Konica Minolta DiMAGE Xg

• TTL EVF integral super-zoom lens, RAW/TIF/JPG, Sensor-based Anti-Shake (Minolta origin):

• Konica Minolta DiMage A1
• Konica Minolta DiMage A2
• Konica Minolta DiMage A200

• TTL EVF integral super-zoom lens, JPG (Minolta origin):

• MINOLTA DiMAGE Z1
• Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z10
• Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z2
• Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z3
• Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z5
• Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z6

• 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

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compact cameras

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

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

Links

• The unofficial Minolta User Forums - English, German, French, Italian and Spanish
• Unofficial Moderated Konica Minolta Digital Camera Forum
• Konica Minolta Talk Forum
• company's homepage
• product history 1st part
• product history 2nd part