neilt3
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Re: Is Minolta making digital cameras again?
sathor wrote:
I saw the one in the Fingerhut book, and tried to find more info, then came across the purple one on Amamzon. The one on amazon looks a lot like the sony wx80 that I used to have. I expect that it is just Sony using the Minolta nameplate to help keep the copyrights fresh, and expand market share indirectly.
Sony branding stuff as Minolta ?????
Copyright ?
If Sony did that Minolta would have them straight to court !
They are two diferant firms altogeather .
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Konica Minolta sold the imaging side of the buisness to Sony in 2006 which is why we can still use our A mount lenses from our film cameras on modern digital cameras today .
KM just dumped their imaging side of of the buisness , not the whole lot .
KM continues to today making office equiptment , printers and the like .
See here ; https://www.konicaminolta.co.uk/home.html
The absence of any mention of a new range of cameras ( after 11 years out of that buisness) does indicate that they might have licenced out the "Minolta" brand name .
Wait and see .
It has to be said though that these new offerings are very lack luster and gain no interest from me , and i doubt the target market for them will have never heard of Minolta .
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Regarding Sony branding , they have invested heavily in their branding .
"Sony alpha" for all interchangable lens cameras , both "A" mount and "E" mount .
And "Sony Cybershot" for all fixed lens cameras from cheap point and shoot stuff to very expensive full frame cameras including fancy bridge cameras .
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The only thing about Minolta that hasn't disapeared since they took it on is the A mount lens mount .
And their trying to kill that off with E mount !