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Minolta SR-T 101. The Minolta SR-T 101 is a 35mm manual focus SLR camera with Through-The-Lens exposure metering – TTL for short - that was launched in 1966 by Minolta Camera Co. It was aimed at demanding amateur and semi-professional photographers. The SR-T 101 stayed in production for ten years with only minor changes.
1997: The world's first autofocus medium format SLR camera. That camera was the Pentax 645N [3] 2008: The world's smallest digital SLR camera equipped with an image sensor equivalent to the APS-C size format is launched. That camera was the PENTAX K-m [7] 2010: The world's first to introduce a digital medium format SLR camera.
35 mm rangefinder and viewfinder cameras. Minolta 35. Minolta Hi-Matic series. Minoltina (S and P) Minolta repo (Half frame 35mm) Minolta 24 Rapid (Square format 35mm) Leica CL (Also sold as the Leitz Minolta CL) Minolta CLE. Minolta TC-1.
The 1970s and 1980s were an era of intense competition between the major SLR brands: Nikon, Canon, Minolta, Pentax and Olympus.Between circa 1975 to 1985, there was a dramatic shift away from heavy all-metal manual mechanical camera bodies to much more compact bodies with microprocessor electronic automation.
The Italian Rectaflex offered its first production SLR, the series 1000, the same year. A single-lens reflex camera ( SLR) is a camera that typically uses a mirror and prism system (hence "reflex" from the mirror's reflection) that permits the photographer to view through the lens and see exactly what will be captured.
The history of the single-lens reflex camera (SLR) begins with the use of a reflex mirror in a camera obscura described in 1676, but it took a long time for the design to succeed for photographic cameras. The first patent was granted in 1861, and the first cameras were produced in 1884, but while elegantly simple in concept, they were very ...
The Canon EOS 100 is a 35 mm autofocus SLR camera introduced by Canon in 1991. It was marketed as the EOS Elan in North America. It was the second camera in the EOS range to be targeted at advanced amateur photographers, replacing the EOS 650 . Its headline features were near-silent film winding, input of EOS barcode programs, integral auto ...
Nikon F-301. The Nikon F-301 (sold in the United States as the N2000) is a manual focus, 35 mm SLR camera sold by the Nikon Corporation beginning in 1985. It replaced the FG. It is functionally very similar to the Nikon F-501 (sold in North America as the N2020), but without autofocus . The F-301 is the first consumer-level Nikon SLR with an ...