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Is Minolta making digital cameras again?

Started May 25, 2017 | Discussions thread
neilt3
neilt3 Veteran Member • Posts: 3,008
A load of junk .

Have a read of the Zombie thread you've just dug up ?

Any if it ?

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It's not about sensor size .

Apart from Nikon , the firm's you listed stopped making cameras years ago .

The names were either bought under licence to use on cheap generic cameras made to a low quality and low standard or in the case of Minolta , the firm that sells them just helped themselves to the Minolta branding , Minolta ( or rather Konica Minolta ) still trade but sold the camera side of the business to Sony in 2006.

And although they still make lenses for other firms ( video cameras etc ) they have absolutely nothing to do with the cameras you've just linked too .

They don't make the lenses , the sensors , the electronics , or anything else on these cameras you linked too .

They certainly don't have any of the Minolta heritage that their advertising bumf shows .

There was another thread on here that asked some awkward questions to a representative of one of the larger camera retailers in the USA .

Things got a bit heated and the thread got deleted , presumably because DPR was worried they might of got sued !

But it did reveal a lot if negative aspects on how these cameras came to be branded and still being sold as "Minolta" .

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