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Konica Minolta is an enterprise from the photo economy, the optical industry, the medicine and the office technology, the 2003 by fusion of the Minolta CO., Ltd. with the Konica corporation came out; the fusion was locked in January 2004. The new holding company is called Konica Minolta of getting thing, Inc., which operates enterprises under the designation Konica Minolta, which also the new label name is simultaneous.
Under the roof of the new holding company also European headquarters Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH (Langenhagen) and Konica are summarized Minolta photo Imaging Europe GmbH the new enterprises form the right follow-up of the earlier Konica Business Machines Germany GmbH, Konica Europe GmbH and the Minolta Europe GmbH. The enterprises possess 26 European addresses with approximately 6,000 employees.
Konica Minolta is, after Canon and Nikon, the third biggest camera manufacturer of the world. In the summer 2005 Konica Minolta announced a strategic partnership with the world company and maintenance industrial giant Sony, together wanted the two enterprises high-quality digital cameras to develop.
As Konica Minolta communicated on 19 January 2006, the company becomes the camera business 31. To March completely give up, starting from which 1 April wants to continue using Sony the business with the digital mirror reflex cameras. Sony will take over according to the announcements also the support. The photo film business is to be finally stopped by March 2007. Konica Minolta relies now mainly on its office electronics section, which manufactures for example printer parts and copiers. Those world-wide approximately 35,600 jobs are to be reduced to approximately 30,000.
Minolta is one of the oldest still existing camera manufacturers; enterprise history is enough back in the year 1928, when Kazuo Tashima shoten nichidokushashinki ("Japanese-German camera business ") based. In July 1931 the enterprise in Molta kg ("mechanism, optics and lenses of Tashima ") was renamed and the label name Minolta ("mechanism, instruments, optics and lenses of Tashima ") was registered. 1937 took place a further renaming in Chiyoko (Chiyoda Kogaku Seiko Kabushiki Kaisha) and/or Chiyoda Kogaku. Only since July 1962 however the designation Minolta Camera company (Minolta Kabushiki Kaisha) was used also as company name.
The enterprise history of Konica goes back even in the year 1873, when Rokusaburo Sugiura takes up the trade with photographic and lithographic products. The business 1879 renamed in Konishi hone. Starting from 1943 the enterprise under the name Konishiroku photo Industry CO firmierte., Ltd., until 1987 under the label name Konica all product designations are finally consolidated and the company in Konica corporation is renamed.
Minolta is also because of their co-operation with traditional European Manufakturen Leitz (Leica) and Hasselblad admits become. In the 70's Minolta with Leitz worked to the Leica R3, this became the first Leica mirror reflex camera with electronic control and corresponded in far parts of the Minolta XE-series. Later the legendary Leica/Minolta CL, a high-quality Messsucherkamera with change objectives followed. The CL is to today the smallest and easiest Leica (excluded digital cameras), it became so popular that Leitz saw itself forced to pull the emergency brake. The Leica R4 was technically partly based on the Minolta XD7.
For the Hasselblad Minolta its ground-glass plate technology Acute mat developed central format cameras. The Sucherbild of the Hasselblad cameras was illuminated by the employment of these modern setting shims altogether substantially more brightly and for the first time evenly. This facilitates the focusing particularly with little environment light.
The current product spectrum of Konica Minolta covers digital cameras, 35mm cameras, binoculars, multi-functional Officesysteme, copying systems, laser printers, fax systems, scanners as well as color and light measuring systems. In long enterprise history Minolta manufactured for example also central format, Disc, pocket and APS cameras; these lines were not however any longer resumed.
The enterprise Minolta became particularly by products in the optics, camera and film sector admits. Already 1940 developed Minolta the first Rokkor objectives; this objective designation was maintained in some product rows until today.
Konica presented numerous technical innovations, so for example the first 35mm camera of the world with exposure mechanism and CdS exposure measurement (Konica car S, 1963), the first mirror reflex camera with automatic exposure system (1965), the first camera of the world with TTL Belichtungsautomatik (Konica autoreflex 35 mm FTA, 1968), the first compact camera with integrated flash appartus and exposure mechanism (Konica C35EF, 197]) as well as the first compact camera of the world with autofocus (Konica C35AF, 1977).
Minolta set a further milestone for 1985, than with the Minolta 7000 practically the first autofocus mirror reflex camera was brought to the world on the market, whose autofocus system was completely into the housing embedded. It was part of the again developed AF-system of the Dynax - Series. The competitors could substantially later present comparable products only; thus the first AF-SLR von Canon appeared for example only 1987.
In the years before it gave only isolated (nearly still experimental) isolated solutions, which did not find a far spreading; the Minolta 7000 opened however for the market for AF-SLRs at all. While the Minolta 7000 contacted rather the amateur, the short time was conceived later Minolta 9000 for professional users, appeared. To the current similar small picture mirror reflex cameras the Dynax 9 and the Dynax 7 belong.
Minolta manufactures digital cameras since 1986; the enterprise ranks thereby among the first offerers of digital cameras at all. Already on photokina the 1986 quietly a video bake for the Minolta 9000 presented. Among other things the models RD-175 with a dissolution of - for conditions at that time considerable - 1.75 megapixels as well as the Dimage RD-3000 with 2,7 megapixels follow - both digital mirror reflex cameras.
1996 appeared the Dimage V for photo amateurs, whatever justified to Minolta the Dimage Modellreihe continued today; for the Consumerbereich both successors Dimage ex Wide and Dimage likewise conceived the ex zoom shot of 1998 were characterised just like the Dimage V by an objective separable of the which was connected with the camera by a cable; this practical however position characteristic remained singular until today.
1999 appeared with the 3D 1500 a digital special camera for generating 3D-Modellen, afterwards Minolta concentrated to a large extent on digital cameras for the profitable Consumer segment, which showed up in a tide of models. The current Prosumer top models are the Dimage a2 and the Dimage Z5; since at the end of 2004 is with the Dynax 7D also again a digital mirror reflex camera on the market, which got Dynax 5D increase since September 2005 by its smaller sister. For 2006 were by Konica Minolta and Sony different DSLRs with Minolta A bayonet (vague) announced - also a professional housing with name Dynax 9D or X9Di.
In January 2006 Konica Minolta communicated that the company will withdraw itself starting from 1 April 2006 from the camera and film business. Sony will take over in the future the business with digital mirror reflex cameras of the Dynax system.
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