Note the spelling ‘Tiyoko’ in place of the later ‘Chiyoko’.ġ937 Minolta Flex Twin Lens Reflex CameraĦ0 x 60mm on 120 film. It was a copy of the German Plaubel Makina.Ħ0 x 60mm on 120 film, rangefinder and automatic film wind-on spacing (incorrectly described on the poster as ‘auto film rewind stop’). The camera has a folding sports finder (the wire frame) as well as an optical coupled rangefinder and an optical viewfinder. The flash synchronisation worked, and the 105mm f/4.5 Anastigmat lens was sufficiently good to permit one commercial studio shot to be completed using the camera, though contrast and light transmission were both low. It was equipped with a rollfilm back as well as plate holders. Editor’s note: at Icon, we owned and used an Auto Press during the 1990s. 40 x 65mm on 127 film with scale-estimation focusing.ġ930 Nifca Sport Folding Dry-Plate CameraĦ5 x 90mm image, with a standard tilt and shift lens.Ĭompact camera using the first ever Japanese-made shutter.Ĥ5 x 60mm on 120 film, Minolta’s first diecast folding camera and the first use of the Minolta name.ġ933 Minolta, Strut-Folding Dry-Plate CameraĦ5 x 90mm image, the first Minolta camera entirely manufactured in Japan.ġ934 Baby Minolta Bakelite body Roll Film CameraĤ0 x 65mm or 40 x 30mm on 127 film, with a Bakelite body and pull-0ut lens.ġ934 Minolta Vest, Strut-Folding Dry-Plate CameraĤ0 x 65mm or 40 x 30mm image on 127 film, the first Bakelite body collapsing camera manufactured in Japan.ġ935 Auto Minolta, Strut-Folding Dry-Plate CameraĦ5 x 90mm image, the first press camera with a rangefinder to be manufactured in Japan.ġ935 Minolta Six, Collapsing Bakelite Body CameraĦ0 x 60mm on 120 film, collapsing Bakelite body.ġ937 Minolta Auto Press, Strut-Folding Dry Plate CameraĦ5 x 90mm image, the first ever press camera with built-in flash synchronisation system manufactured in Japan. Ltd was established by Kazuo Tashima in November 1928, under the name ‘Nichi-Doku Shashinki Shoten’ In order to access all the content here, which includes high quality images of many historic cameras, you need to be a Subscriber to Photoclubalpha. If you know the period of the camera you want to see, go straight to the page. This page has been updated so that each period now appears as a separate section – simply select the next page to move on after reading each one. This page re-creates all the information from the original poster, complete with the photographs. They are Japanese inkset CMYK sharpened for pre-press, with very dark gamma. The original image-files for the poster, which we have archived, are of poor quality. Many of the cameras shown – all fairly small on the poster – were well used and worn examples. Konica Minolta cameras include the name “Konica Minolta” above the camera’s lens.IN 1998 Minolta published, for their 70th anniversary, a large poster featuring all the landmark cameras from their own museum and employee collections. Minolta cameras can generally be identified by the name “Minolta” in either capital or lower-case letters on the front of the camera’s body, above the lens. Konica Minolta released its final camera models, the Dimage X1 and Z6 in 2006 after 78 years as a camera manufacturer. In 2006, the company left the camera and photo business and sold a portion of its SLR camera business to Sony. In 2003, Minolta and Konica merged to form Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc. The Minolta XD-11 (known as the XD-7 worldwide) was introduced in 1977 as the world’s first ‘multi-mode’ SLR camera. In 1962, John Glenn took a modified Minolta Hi-Matic camera aboard the Friendship 7 to take pictures of space. Minolta developed the first integrated autofocus 35-millimeter single-lens reflex (SLR) camera system.
The company developed its first single-lens reflex camera in 1958. The Nifcarette relied heavily on German camera technology. Minolta sold its first bellows camera, called the Nifcarette, in 1929. In 1931, the company changed its name to Minolta, which is an acronym for “Mechanism, Instruments, Optics, and Lenses by Tashima.” Minolta was founded in 1928 in Osaka, Japan as Nichi-Doku Shashinki Shōten (Japanese-German camera shop). (Minolta) was a manufacturer of cameras, camera accessories, laser printers, fax machines, and photocopiers.
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