Minolta photo and film cameras catalogue

150 items

Minolta was a renowned camera manufacturer of, among other things, SLRs. The company once merged with Konica under the name Konica-Minolta. Ultimately, Sony annexed the whole business and took over the technology and further developed it. More

Minolta was already a renowned camera manufacturer in the 1960s. The bayonet mount, which was very large at the time, was particularly known. They developed the XD7, the first camera with both aperture and shutter speed coupled to the exposure system. Minolta also played a major role in the development of autofocus. The lenses were always of a high standard.
Minolta has usually released its cameras for multiple audiences, the amateur, the advanced amateur and the professional. In addition to analog SLR cameras (SR, SRT, XM, XE, XG,SD, X,xxx-SI) also rangefinder cameras and later digital cameras. A separate series of cameras had a different mount (V-mount, or Vectis-mount). Minolta was a progressive manufacturer that applied many new techniques: The Minolta XM was the first SLR with a shutter speed of 1/2000 sec, they also introduced the AutoFocus system.

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Full name

Minolta

Number of photo and video cameras

150

Number of related items

Oldest item

16 mm (1950)