Minolta is the brand with a model number capable of marketing the very latest in camera technology. Just look at the appeal of a Minolta 7, in all series, this is the camera that sets the tone in the industry. Actually, this has remained true even after the takeover by Sony in 2006, because there too the 7 series is the big sales success. In 1962 the same was true of the then SR-7, the very first SLR camera with a CdS light meter.
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Winter 1985. I am standing in a shop window looking at the world’s first autofocus SLR camera. I often walked past it until I had saved up the money to buy one. My first own film camera, my Minolta 7000. A unique moment in the analog age. A camera with interchangeable lenses that could focus automatically.
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