1928: Kazuo Tashima establishes Nichi-Doku Shashinki Shōten ('Japanese-German photo company,' the precursor of Minolta Co., Ltd.).

( Learn how and when to remove this template message) ( November 2016) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This section needs additional citations for verification. On 19 January 2006, Konica Minolta announced that it was leaving the camera and photo business, and that it would sell a portion of its SLR camera business to Sony as part of its move to pull completely out of the business of selling cameras and photographic film. In 2003, Minolta merged with Konica to form Konica Minolta. In 1933, the brand name first appeared on a camera, a copy of the Plaubel Makina simply called 'Minolta'. In 1931, the company adopted its final name, an acronym for ' Mechanism, Instruments, Optics, and Lenses by Tashima'. It made the first integrated autofocus 35 mm SLR camera system. Minolta Co., Ltd., which is also known simply as Minolta, was founded in Osaka, Japan, in 1928 as Nichi-Doku Shashinki Shōten ( 日独写真機商店, meaning Japanese-German camera shop).

( ミノルタ, Minoruta) was a Japanese manufacturer of cameras, camera accessories, photocopiers, fax machines, and laser printers. Minolta's fourth and final logo, designed by Saul Bass in 1981ġ928 94 years ago ( 1928) (as Nichi-Doku Shashinki Shōten)ģ-13, 2-chome, Azuchi-Machi, Chuo-ku, Osaka 541-8556, Japan (1998)Ĭameras, film cameras, camera accessories, photocopiers, fax machines, laser printers

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