Show us yer film shots then!

[Terrywoodenpic]

I didn't know that Konica Minolta wre so big, but I knew they were still going.

But I did know about the whole Minolta > Sony thing. It's the reason why the ⍺7 is so called as the very last Minolta SLRs were ⍺9s (in some territories at least).

Plus Minolta A mount lenses fit directly on the early A mount Sony's without an adapter. It's part of the reason I bought a Sony to use with all my Minolta lenses as I see them as legacy lenses for Sony.

There is some speculation that they were in trouble after the crossed XXs of the early Maxxum cameras in the US brought about a lawsuit from Exxon. They settled out of court apparently for an undisclosed amount and that's why they eventually sold.

Maxxum was only a name that they used in the USA nowhere else, I doubt it was a factor, it was the dynax in Europe and a alpha in Japan. Cameras while not totally loss making, were not pulling their weight as a business.

 

[Kell]

Maxxum was only a name that they used in the USA nowhere else, I doubt it was a factor, it was the dynax in Europe and an alpha in Japan. Cameras while not totally loss making, were not pulling their weight as a business.

I can only go with what I’ve read. Although believing stuff you read on the Internet is dangerous.

From what I can piece together the combination of the Exxon case and the Honeywell settlement left them without the money to truly invest in digital. Particularly in developing their own sensors.

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

I can only go with what I’ve read. Although believing stuff you read on the Internet is dangerous.

From what I can piece together the combination of the Exxon case and the Honeywell settlement left them without the money to truly invest in digital. Particularly in developing their own sensors.

Sony provided sensors to Minolta as they still do today for a vast majority of camera makers. Canon were the only major camera maker not to do so.
However both Minolta and Konica were very large on the world scene of office copiers, only second to Ricoh, who were the wold leaders for many years.
Xerox were large in America but Less so elsewhere.
Like Fuji K M are big players in the medical technology field

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

I can only go with what I’ve read. Although believing stuff you read on the Internet is dangerous.

From what I can piece together the combination of the Exxon case and the Honeywell settlement left them without the money to truly invest in digital. Particularly in developing their own sensors.

I agree there are a lot of alternative " facts" on line.
Honeywell put the squeeze on a all the major camera makers, over autofocus patents, however better technology was soon developed. It was an expensive but short lived hiccough. Polaroid used their own infrared system from the start.
These patent booby traps are bad for progress. Honeywell sat on the patent but did not develop it further and hardly used it itself. Senso based systems soon made it redundant.

 

[Barney]

Minolta Dynax Seven, 28-135
APX 100 in 510 Pyro

The winding Road