Changes: 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

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 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):

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 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.

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-'''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''' was created by the merger of [[Konica]] and [[Minolta]] in 2003; the subsequent models were branded "Konica Minolta".
-Konica Minolta has [http://konicaminolta.com/releases/2006/0119_03_01.html 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.
+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.<ref>[http://konicaminolta.com/releases/2006/0119_03_01.html announcement].</ref> It transferred its photographic know-how to [[Sony]], which has developed DSLRs compatible with the Konica Minolta 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.
+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 (Maxxum in North America, alpha in Japan, Dynax elsewhere) lenses are Minolta's 35mm Autofocus SLR lenses.
+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.
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 === DiMAGE ===
-Konica Minolta maintained the Dimage name that Minolta had used for the digital cameras.
+Konica Minolta maintained the Dimage name that Minolta had used for digital cameras.
 * Pocket, interior zoom lens (Minolta origin):
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 :* [[Konica Minolta DiMAGE Xg]]
-* TTL EVF integral super-zoom lens, RAW/TIF/JPG, Sensor-based Anti-Shake (Minolta origin):
+* 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 A2]]
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 :* [[Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z6]]
-* Compact Digital zoom (Konica origin):
+* Compact digital zoom (Konica origin):
 :* MINOLTA DiMAGE G400
 :* Konica Minolta DiMAGE G530
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 === compact cameras ===
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-Konica Minolta just reworked two of the older [[Minolta#Minolta Compact 35mm Film Cameras|Minolta Riva/Freedom zoom]] models for 35 mm film
+Konica Minolta reworked two of the older [[Minolta#Minolta Compact 35mm Film Cameras|Minolta Riva/Freedom zoom]] models for 35 mm film
 * Konica Minolta zoom 130c DATE
 * Konica Minolta zoom 160c DATE
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 == Lenses ==
+Konica Minolta continued to produce camera lenses.
-Konica Minolta stayed in the camera lens business. It still offers compact zoom lenses with aspherical plastic lenses for small CCDs and zoom ranges from 6&times; to 25&times;, as well as light-weight mono-focal and zoom lenses for [[compact camera]]s. Especially the making of the miniature lens units for cell phone cameras will be continued in the future.
 == Links ==
-* [http://www.minolta-forum.com/ The unofficial Minolta User Forums - English, German, French, Italian and Spanish]
+* [http://www.minolta-forum.com/ The unofficial Minolta user forums - English, German, French, Italian and Spanish]
-* [http://www.network54.com/Forum/151930/ Unofficial Moderated Konica Minolta Digital Camera Forum]
+* [http://www.network54.com/Forum/151930/ Unofficial moderated Konica Minolta digital camera forum]
-* [http://www.dpreview.com/forums/forum.asp?forum=1024 Konica Minolta Talk Forum]
+* [http://www.dpreview.com/forums/forum.asp?forum=1024 Konica Minolta talk forum]
 * [http://www.konicaminolta.com company's homepage]
 * [http://ca.konicaminolta.jp/oldnew/konicaminolta/2004.html product history 1st part]