Who can introduce Minolta Japan?

1928165438+10 On October, Kazuo Tadao founded "Nide Photo Studio"; Establishment of a factory on the Mukogawa River;

Tadao Kazuo

1March 929 Minolta's first camera "Niffka Lede" went on sale;

1September, 937, the company was renamed as "Chiyoda Optical Seiko Co., Ltd.";

1937165438+1October, Japan's first dual-mirror reflex camera "Minolta Flekus" went on sale;

1August, 955, the camera was exported to America;

1957 165438+ October camera exported to Europe;

65438+September 0958 Minolta's first SLR camera "SR-2" was launched;

Sr -2

1Feb. 962 As aerial photography equipment, Minolta Hi-Matic camera was used on Friendship 7, the first manned spacecraft in the United States;

HI-MATIC E of the same series

1July, 962, the company was officially renamed Minolta Camera Co., Ltd.;

1In April, 1966, the SLR camera "SR-T 10 1" with TTL aperture metering mode went on sale.

1968 65438+ Minolta aerial exposure meter in February, applied to apollo 8 spacecraft;

1973 may set up a camera production base in Malaysia;

1976 in September, Minolta camera sales company was established in Japan;

1981February officially introduced Minolta CI system;

1981February successfully developed the world's first 35mm autofocus camera "cle" with TTL ranging function;

198 1 the SLR camera "X-700" with built-in minolta exposure program (MPS) went on sale in June.

X-700

1Feb. 985 Minolta abandoned the old MD bayonet, and the SLR camera "α-7000" with mature autofocus function went on the market;

α-7000

1985165438+1October Kazuo Tadao, the founder of Minolta, passed away;

1988 February, the world's first waterproof and dustproof portable camera "DUAL35" went on sale;

1In May, 988, the world's first AF SLR camera with built-in smart card "α-7700i" went on sale;

1990 10 The world's first dual-mirror reflex camera with mature autofocus function "8×22, 10×25" went on sale;

1In July 1992, the world's first AF SLR camera "α-9xi" with a shutter of112000 seconds went on sale.

1July 1994, the company was officially renamed Minolta Co., Ltd.;

1In September 1994, two joint ventures were established in China-"Shanghai Minolta Optical Instrument Co., Ltd." and "Wuhan Minolta Office Machinery Co., Ltd." to produce and sell cameras and photocopiers respectively;

1February, 1995, the newly designed zoom portable camera "Capios 25" went on the market;

June 1995 Minolta's first high-speed, high-resolution and low-cost 35mm film scanner "QuickScan 35" was launched;

1995 10 is a single-mirror reflective digital camera "rd-175" with a pixel of1750,000.

1February, 1996, based on the advanced photographic system (APS) specification, a series of "VECTIS" products, such as single-mirror reflective cameras and portable cameras, were successfully developed.

1Feb. 996 "Minolta Home Page" was launched online;

1In March, 1996, the classic portable camera "TC- 1" equipped with 28mm G lens went on sale.

TC- 1, discontinued in 2005.

1May, 997, the digital camera "DiMAGE V" with detachable and rotatable lens went on the market;

1998 12 the 35mm AF SLR camera "α-9" with world-class professional performance and functions went on the market;

June 1999 Portable APS zoom camera "VECTIS 2000" went on sale;

1999102.7 million pixels, professional digital camera "DiMAGE RD3000" with interchangeable lenses went on the market;

In September, 2000, the 35mm AFAF SLR camera "α-7" equipped with a large LCD navigation screen went on sale.

American DYNAX 7, α7

2006 06 54 38+0 The quasi-professional digital camera "DiMAGE 7" with 5 effective pixels and 7 times optical zoom lens went on the market.

DiMAGE 7

In August, 2003, Minolta introduced the successor model of DiMAGE 7 series: DiMAGE A 1, which became the world's first digital camera with built-in CCD image stabilizer technology, and this technology was also applied in many digital cameras of Minolta in the future.

In August 2003, Minolta announced the merger with Konica, with the goal of "becoming an integrated digital image service provider like Kodak and Fuji"-however, this sentence finally ended miserably today;

In September 2004, Konica Minolta launched the first digital SLR α7D after the merger. This machine still adopts Minolta α/Maxxum/Dynax bayonet and Minolta's CCD image stabilizer technology, which is the first mature digital SLR in Minolta's history.

α7D

In July, 2005, Konica Minolta launched its second α series digital SLR-α 5d, which is mainly aimed at entry-level users.

α5D

In July 2005, Konica Minolta announced that it would cooperate with Sony to develop a digital SLR camera based on the α/Maxxum/Dynax bayonet.

065438-2006 10, Konica Minolta announced its withdrawal from the camera and picture market, and the camera-related assets will be transferred to Sony. In the near future, the two companies will continue to cooperate to develop digital SLR, but the Konica Minolta trademark will not be used in future models. Twenty years after Tadao Kazuo's death, Minolta camera came to an end, ending the glorious and bumpy course of less than 80 years.