Brand

Minolta film cameras

Minolta began in Osaka in 1928 as Nichi-Doku Shashinki Shōten, the Japanese-German camera shop, and took the Minolta name in 1931. Its SLR line started with the SR-2 of 1958, the first body on the SR bayonet that every manual-focus Minolta SLR in our catalog uses. The SR-T 101 brought through-the-lens metering in 1966. In 1977 the XD-11, sold as the XD-7 in Europe, became the first 35mm SLR with both aperture and shutter priority. The X-700 followed and stayed on sale until 1999. Minolta worked with Leica from 1972, and in 1985 the Maxxum 7000 put the autofocus motor in the body on a new A-mount. Minolta merged with Konica in 2003 and left cameras in 2006, passing its digital work to Sony.

5 cameras we cover.