Minolta
Sign in to savewas a Japanese manufacturer of cameras, lenses, camera accessories, photocopiers, fax machines, and laser printers. Minolta Co., Ltd., which is also known simply as Minolta, was founded in Osaka, Japan, in 1928 as . It made the first integrated autofocus 35 mm SLR camera system. In 1931, the company adopted its final name, an acronym for "Mechanism, Instruments, Optics, and Lenses by Tashima".
Key facts
- Company.name
- Minolta Co., Ltd.ミノルタ
- Company.logo
- Minolta Logo.svg
- Company.logo_size
- 170px
- Company.logo_caption
- Minolta's fourth and final logo, designed by Saul Bass in 1981
- Company.fate
- Merged with Konica into Konica MinoltaMinolta trademark sold to JMM Lee Properties (2017)
- Company.successor
- Konica Minolta
- Company.founder
- Kazuo Tashima
- Company.foundation
- (as Nichi-Doku Shashinki Shōten)Osaka, Japan
- Company.location
- 3-13, 2-chome, Azuchi-Machi, Chuo-ku, Osaka 541-8556, Japan (1998)
- Company.industry
- Manufacturing
- Company.products
- Cameras, film cameras, lenses, camera accessories, photocopiers, fax machines, laser printers
- Camera.camera_name
- Minolta XD-7 (Minolta XD-11, Minolta XD)
- Camera.image
- Minolta XD-11.jpg
- Camera.image_alt
- Minolta XD-11
- Camera.caption
- A chrome Minolta XD-11
- Camera.maker
- Minolta
- Camera.type
- 35 mm SLR
- Camera.filmformat
- 35mm
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.minolta.com
- Image
- Minolta XD-11.jpg
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- Commons category
- Minolta
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2003-08-05
- inception
- 1928-01-01
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18 sectionsContents
- History
- Milestones
- Early cameras
- Single-lens reflex cameras
- First "program" focal plane shutter 35mm SLR: the XD-11 (XD, XD-7)
- The final manual-focus 35mm SLR cameras: the X-700 series
- Compact 35mm film cameras
- Autofocus SLRs
- APS format cameras
- Other developments
- Merger with Konica
- Digital cameras
- Digital SLRs{{anchor|DSLR}}
- Timeline
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
was a Japanese manufacturer of cameras, lenses, camera accessories, photocopiers, fax machines, and laser printers. Minolta Co., Ltd., which is also known simply as Minolta, was founded in Osaka, Japan, in 1928 as . It made the first integrated autofocus 35 mm SLR camera system. In 1931, the company adopted its final name, an acronym for "Mechanism, Instruments, Optics, and Lenses by Tashima".
In 2003, Minolta merged with Konica to form Konica Minolta. On 19 January 2006, Konica Minolta announced that it was leaving the camera and photo business, and that it would sell a portion of its SLR camera business to Sony as part of its move to pull completely out of the business of selling cameras and photographic film.