![]() ![]() It started with the quintessential and quite chunky Minolta Hi-Matic and lasted into the mid 1980s with the Hi-Matic GF. In the 1960s Minolta released the first camera in their long running series of Hi-Matic rangefinders. I’m not much of a 110 person, being that it’s tricky to develop at home and even harder to scan, but the idea of a 110 SLR seems interesting. Being some of the only 110 SLR cameras ever made, the two models released command higher prices online today. But the more interesting camera was the Minolta 110 Zoom SLR. The Minolta Weathermatic 110 was a completely waterproof camera and had the ability to be taken completely underwater. One of which was a 110 camera part of the Weathermatic line Minolta produced. Out the 110 and 126 cameras, there were really only a few interesting models to talk about. They seem to gather a decent following online, but regardless, a medium format camera with a Minolta lens sounds great in my book. Coming out in the late 1930s, the Autocord was pretty interesting in the fact that they had CDS metering in later models. There were a handful of different TLR cameras produced, but the Autocord was Minolta’s somewhat successful grab at the TLR market. ![]() I’m not very knowledgeable about the TLR and smaller format cameras Minolta was producing, but I’ll do a brief rundown. ![]()
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