Why so little in body image stabilization?

>>>They had a recipe for fail, and they prepared and served it perfectly.>>>

Gloat ye not.  It was thanks to the extremely dirty business with the Honeywell AF patent in 1991 which cost them $127.5M... at lot of money in those days... and drove a stake right into their heart.

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/05/business/company-news-minolta-settles-suit-on-honeywell-patents.html

Minolta probably still hoped some saw them as the east Asian Leica but the 'Dark Side' US litigation system had sucessfully undermined them as a major player.

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