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Konica Minolta Photocopiers - One Hundred Years in The Making

Although Konica is better known for manufacturing and supply of cameras, this side of the business was ended in 2006, when all camera manufacturing was handed to Sony. Prior to this decision and subsequent cessation, Konica merged with Minolta in 2003.

Minolta has its origins dating back to 1928 when it started manufacturing camera equipment, film and business machines, whereas Konica dates back to 1828 believe it or not, when the owner of Tokyo's largest pharmacy started to sell photographic equipment from his store. The company grew until 1987 when the name was changed to Konica. Konica Minolta Holdings Inc was launched in 2006 to focus on its then core business of producing some of the worlds best business machines including fax machines, printers, and photocopiers. Initially after the merger the company spent a lot of time researching and developing new products, whilst marketing and selling what were at that time the top of the line products that were being developed by each of the respective companies prior to the merger.

Their core focus was on Multi Function Printers, which is still where they hold a huge market share today. After the merger and as a result of the research and development being carried out by the new management teams, future products were going to see a much stronger emphasis on the combining of both technologies each company was once individually mastering. Of course one of the key areas of success for Konica Minolta has been in the medical field with their photo imaging technology, but in general terms, Konica Minolta would still command a leading position across the globe for their business machine lines.

For the third year running now, Konica Minolta has remained at the number one spot for producing the top office copier on the market today, based on the Brand Keys report. This index of the best brands was established in 1997 and it considers the best brands to engage consumers as well as create very loyal customers. It is known as the Brand Keys Customer Loyalty Engagement Index. This season the index covers a staggering 518 brands, across 71 different categories, so to be at the top of that index, is something quite remarkable. To hold the top spot for three years consecutively, means that you are certainly doing something right by your customers, and developing fantastic products.

For the category of Multi Function Copiers, Konica Minolta topped the list. In doing so they beat out other famous brands like Xerox, Ricoh, Panasonic and Hewlett Packard, among others. This is the measure of a great company with great products. To think that they started with their technology more than 100 years ago in the case of Konica, and are now the market leaders in what they specialize in, provides immense consumer confidence in knowing that not only are the Konica Minolta products second to none, the service and company commitment to the future is also top notch.

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Minolta/Sony Lens Question?

I have a Minolta Maxxum 5 as well as a Sony Alpha 100. Their lenses are interchangeable. I have the opportunity to buy lenses from a Maxxum 7000 which I know is much older. Is the lens mount still the same? Or was that before Minolta switched to their latest mount? I'd just hate to buy lenses that I won't be able to use on my Sony.

Minolta introduced the A-mount when they released the Maxxum 7000 in 1985. Any A-mount lens made for the Maxxum will mount to your Sony. Minolta also offered an adapter to mount the older manual focus MC/MD mount lenses on the Maxxum.

Sony is expected to release a full-frame (24mm X 36mm) sensor camera in late 2008 or early 2009. Since the Maxxum lenses were designed for the 35mm format (24X36) they will be just fine on the full-frame camera.

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Sony Will Change the trends of DSLRs

We truly can change the world' says Masashi 'Tiger' Imamura, President of Individual Imaging & Sound Enterprise Group in an exclusive interview with dpreview.com. The firm will attempt to bring together all its technologies to create a worthy successor to the A700, he told us in a talk that also touched on the future expansion of the NEX technique and the company's position on 'full frame' models.

 

'After the merger [with Konica Minolta] our method was quite similar to a traditional DSLR – rather similar to Canon and Nikon. They have much more heritage than us: traditional DSLRs are a mixture of optics, mechanics as well as electronics. We're coming from the AV industry so we have a lot of special technologies we can put into our cameras. Now we have merged our resources into one location (Tokyo), we can bring our expertise from Alpha, NEX, Cyber-Shot and camcorders.'

'There has been a lot of discussion about what an Alpha DSLR ought to be. We've been focusing for some time on utilizing our distinctive technologies. The translucent mirror is 1 and it performs really well. We want the A700 replacement to be in line with that variety of step forward, we want it to be superior to its competitors, that's why we couldn't make it sooner,' he mentioned. But, he assured us, the outcomes will be worth waiting for: 'With the A33 and 55 we tried to look at the trouble and get rid of some of the old hassles – the A700 successor must be like that.'

Meanwhile, the NEX idea will expand in various directions, he stated: 'The concept of the NEX three and 5 were for men and women who already have a compact stills camera and want to take a step up, but see a conventional DSLR as significant, heavy and very difficult to use. We believe these models are a rather good fit to those consumers. But also there areconsumers utilizing NEX in addition to their DSLR, so we're planning to expand NEX in a a lotmore effortless way, a lighter way, but we'll also expand to make models that have far more manual control and additional DSLR-like capability.'

Imamura repeated the enthusiasm he expressed at Photokina for the use of legacy lenses on the NEX system: 'with lens adapters, people today can combine their valued, heritage lenses with a incredibly advanced digital physique. We didn't anticipate that sort of usage. There are lots of fascinating items we can do for those kinds of customer.' The wait for these models could not be too lengthy – at a formal dinner right after our interview he told the assembled journalists that: 'the successors to the NEX-three and NEX-five are on the horizon.'

But the company's ambition doesn't end there, he mentioned: 'As properly as the simple-to-use and DSLR capabilities, we're also thinking about the camcorder style shooters and technologies. The NEX VG10 is one example of that. The barriers between compacts, DSLRs and camcorders will merge – not necessarily in a single device but with technologies and capabilities becoming shared in between them. Our mission is to develop new markets – we don't want to make the same products as everyone else and just cannibalise every single other in the existing market.'

When asked about full-frame, he stated Sony was nonetheless committed: 'When we began in DSLR we said that if we have DSLRs, a full-frame camera need to be there. But we are operating on a lot of merchandise and there is a limit to our engineering capacity. The time will come when I can give far more detail. When we announce a full-frame camera we want it to be a significant step forward – a different technological development may possibly be necessary so I say to people today: Please stay tuned.'

 

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