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Is Minolta making digital cameras again?

Started May 25, 2017 | Discussions thread
neilt3
neilt3 Veteran Member • Posts: 3,008
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 !

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