The Minolta digital camera is the product of renowned Japanese Company by the same name. Founded in 1928 by Kazuo Tajima, this Company was initially known as the Japan-Germany Camera Shop and was baptized as Minolta only in 1962. This was the same year when John Glenn carried a specially built Minolta Hi-Matic camera with him on Freedom 7 to capture memorabilia in space.

This exceptionally successful company merged with Konica in 2003 and was renamed as Konica-Minolta Corporation. However, in the beginning of the year 2006 Minolta announced that they stopped manufacturing cameras. Sony bought off and became the owners of the branch that looked after SLR cameras in the Konica-Minolta Corporation.

The Image of the Minolta Digital Camera in the Global Market

The Minolta digital camera aimed and succeeded to create a niche for itself in the professional area of digital photography. Before Minolta was introduced, professional photography mostly meant sophisticated manual cameras which took years of experience to use optimally. The Minolta digital camera eliminated the complications while it improved the results.

The DiMage line of digital cameras offered highly advanced functionality in an extremely simplified form. It made professional level photography feel like a childs play without any compromise in the end product (photographs). The professional photographer now felt like he/ she had been given a very able assistant