X-Nico

unusual facts about Minolta



9XI

Minolta 9xi, a 35mm SLR camera designed and manufactured by Minolta

Bokeh

Lens manufacturers including Nikon, Minolta, and Sony make lenses designed with specific controls to change the rendering of the out-of-focus areas.

Minolta AF 70-210mm f/4 lens

It remains popular, however, for use on digital single lens reflex cameras using the AF system, such as the Konica-Minolta Maxxum 7D or the Sony α.

Minolta Dimage EX

In 1999, Minolta also marketed the Dimáge 3D 1500, incorporating MetaCreations' MetaFlash technology in a special flash accessory module to be mounted between the camera base and its lens in order to achieve stereoscopic photographs.

OpenAPI

Konica Minolta OpenAPI - an API and SDK from the MFP manufacturer Konica Minolta

Planetarium projector

Companies that make (or have made) planetarium projectors include Carl Zeiss Jena (Germany), Spitz (US), Goto and Minolta (Japan), Evans & Sutherland (US), and Ohira Tech (Japan).

STF lens

Minolta STF 135mm f/2.8 T4.5 lens, Minolta A-mount Smooth Trans Focus portrait lens with optimized bokeh utilizing the optical apodization effect

Subminiature photography

While many subminiature cameras were inexpensive and poorly manufactured (thus giving the format a bad name), Minox, Tessina, Gami, Edixa, Rollei, Pentax and Minolta made quality cameras capable of producing fine results—even enlarged.

Y Clwb Rygbi

Highlights of the Principality Premiership and the Konica Minolta Cup are shown, with the final of the Konica Minolta Cup being televised live.


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