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Minolta AF
The Minolta A-mount camera system was a line of photographic equipment from Minolta introduced in 1985 with the world's first integrated autofocus system in the camera body with interchangeable lenses. The system used a lens mount called A-mount, with a flange focal distance 44.50 mm, one millimeter longer, 43.5 mm, than the previous SR mount from 1958. The new mount was wider, 49.7 mm vs. 44.97 mm, than the older SR-mount and had a longer flange focal distance making old manual lenses incompatible with the new system. Minolta bought the autofocus technology of Leica Correfot camera which was partly used on the a-mount autofocus technology. The mount is now used by Sony, who bought the SLR camera division from Konica Minolta, Konica and Minolta having merged a few years before. The Minolta A-mount system was at first marketed as Maxxum in North America and α (Alpha) in Japan and the rest of Asia. In Europe, early Minolta A-mount cameras were initially ident ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DX Coding
DX (Digital indeX) encoding is an ANSI and I3A standard, originally introduced by Kodak in March 1983, for marking 135 and APS photographic film and film cartridges. It consists of several parts, a latent image DX film edge barcode on the film below the sprocket holes, a code on the cartridge used by automatic cameras, and a barcode on the cartridge read by photo-finishing machines. History In order to simplify the handling of 35 mm film in 135 format Kodak introduced the DX encoding method on 3 January 1983. In contrast to former solutions like Fuji's film speed encoding method in 1977, which was already using electrical contacts for film speed detection on 135 format cartridges, Kodak's later DX code system immediately met success in the marketplace. The first DX encoded film was the color negative film Kodacolor VR-1000 in March 1983. The first cameras to use the technology was the Konica TC-X SLR (1985), [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Minolta A-mount Cameras
List of products manufactured by electronics company Minolta. Cameras 16 mm film cameras * Minolta 16 series 110 film cameras * Minolta 110 Zoom SLR * Minolta Autopak pocket camera * Minolta Weathermatic A (bright yellow waterproof case) 126 film cameras * Minolta Autopak 400X * Minolta Autopak 500 * Minolta Autopak 550 * Minolta Autopak 600X * Minolta Autopak 700 * Minolta Autopak 800 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 * Minolta AF-C *Minolta Uniomat 35 mm SLRs Manual focus (SR, SR-T and X series): * Minolta SR-2 (1958-1960) * Minolta SR-1 (variants 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1965) (1959-1971) * Minolta SR-3 (variants 1960, 1961) (1960-1962) * Minolta SR-7 (variants 1962, 1963, 1965) (1962-1966) / Minolta SR 777 (prototype 1965) * Minolta SR-1s (1967-?) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamron
is a Japanese company manufacturing photographic lenses, optical components and commercial/industrial-use optics. Tamron Headquarters is located in Saitama City in the Saitama Prefecture of Japan. The name of the company came from the surname of Uhyoue Tamura who was instrumental in developing Tamron's optical technologies. It was only on the company's 20th anniversary that the name was changed to Tamron (from Taisei Optical). Sony Corporation maintains a 12.07% share hold in Tamron, making it the second-largest shareholder below New Well Co., Ltd (ニューウェル株式会社) with 18.89% (as of June 30, 2020). In the fiscal year ending 31 December 2017, net sales totaled 60.496 billion yen and operating income was 4.24 billion yen, up 79.8% from 2016. At that time, the consolidated company had 4,640 employees and five production plants: in Hirosaki, Namioka and Owani in Japan, and one in China and Viet Nam, respectively. Subsidiary companies were located in the U.S., Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigma Corporation
is a Japanese company, manufacturing cameras, lenses, flashes and other photographic accessories. All Sigma products are produced in the company's own Aizu factory in Bandai, Fukushima, Japan. Although Sigma produces several camera models, the company is best known for producing high-quality lenses and other accessories that are compatible with the cameras produced by other companies. The company was founded in 1961 by Michihiro Yamaki, who was Sigma's CEO until his death at age 78 in 2012. Sigma products work with cameras from Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Sony, Olympus and Panasonic, as well as their own cameras. Sigma has also made lenses under the Quantaray name, which have been sold exclusively by Ritz Camera. Similarly, Sigma lenses were sold exclusively by the former Wolf Camera, but following the merger of Wolf and Ritz, both brands can be purchased. Sigma's digital SLRs, the SD9, SD10, SD14 and SD15, plus the latest SD1 are unusual in their use of the Foveon X ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxxum 5
The Minolta A-mount camera system was a line of photographic equipment from Minolta introduced in 1985 with the world's first integrated autofocus system in the camera body with interchangeable lenses. The system used a lens mount called A-mount, with a flange focal distance 44.50 mm, one millimeter longer, 43.5 mm, than the previous SR mount from 1958. The new mount was wider, 49.7 mm vs. 44.97 mm, than the older SR-mount and had a longer flange focal distance making old manual lenses incompatible with the new system. Minolta bought the autofocus technology of Leica Correfot camera which was partly used on the a-mount autofocus technology. The mount is now used by Sony, who bought the SLR camera division from Konica Minolta, Konica and Minolta having merged a few years before. The Minolta A-mount system was at first marketed as Maxxum in North America and α (Alpha) in Japan and the rest of Asia. In Europe, early Minolta A-mount cameras were initially ident ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smooth Trans Focus
The Smooth Trans Focus (STF) technology in photographic lenses uses an apodization filter to realize notably smooth bokeh with rounded out-of-focus highlights in both the foreground and background. This is accomplished by utilizing a concave neutral-gray tinted lens element next to the aperture blades as apodization filter, a technology originally invented (and patented) by Minolta in the 1980s, and first implemented in a commercially available lens in 1999. In contrast to soft focus lenses, STF lenses render a perfectly sharp image in the focus plane. Lenses featuring ''Smooth Trans Focus'' technology: * Minolta STF 135mm F2.8 4.5(introduced 1999) * Sony α STF 135mm F2.8 4.5(SAL-135F28) (introduced 2006) * Sony FE 100mm F2.8 STF GM OSS ( SEL-100F28GM) (introduced 2017) See also * STF function (an emulation of the effect in the Minolta Maxxum 7) * Fujinon XF 56mm F1.2 R APD (a similar lens introduced by Fujifilm in 2014) * Venus Optics Laowa 105mm f/2 Smooth Trans Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
STF Function
Autobracketing is a feature of some more advanced cameras, whether film or digital cameras, particularly single-lens reflex cameras, where the camera will take several successive shots (often three) with slightly different settings. The images may be automatically combined, for example into one high-dynamic-range image, or they may be stored separately so the best-looking pictures can be picked later from the batch. When the photographer achieves the same result by changing the camera settings between each shot, this is simply called bracketing. Parameter altered The bracketing is typically for one specific parameter: Exposure Exposure autobracketing (often abbreviated to ''AEB'' for ''automatic exposure bracketing'' or ''BR'' for ''Bracketing'') is the most common form. In this, the camera is set to capture the same image several times with different exposure settings, both over-exposed and under-exposed (lighter and darker) compared to the current setting on the camera, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minolta Dynax 7 1
was a Japanese manufacturer of cameras, camera accessories, photocopiers, fax machines, and laser printers. Minolta Co., Ltd., which is also known simply as Minolta, was founded in Osaka, Japan, in 1928 as . It made the first integrated autofocus 35 mm SLR camera system. In 1931, the company adopted its final name, an acronym for "Mechanism, Instruments, Optics, and Lenses by Tashima". In 2003, Minolta merged with Konica to form Konica Minolta. 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. History Milestones *1928: establishes Nichi-Doku Shashinki Shōten ("Japanese-German photo company," the precursor of Minolta Co., Ltd.). *1929: Marketed the company's first camera, the "Nifcarette" (ニフカレッテ). *1937: The Minolta Flex is Japan's second tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shutterbug (magazine)
Shutterbug may refer to: * '' Shutterbug (magazine)'', a camera equipment magazine; see '' Faces of Sunset Boulevard'' * '' Shutterbug Follies'', a 2002 graphic novel created by Jason Little * A song by the band Veruca Salt on the album ''Eight Arms to Hold You'' * "The Shutterbug", an episode of the children's animated television series ''Timothy Goes to School'' * ''Shutterbug'', a 1995 album by Thousand Foot Krutch * "Shutterbugs", several episodes on the MTV sketch comedy show ''Human Giant ''Human Giant'' is a sketch comedy show, starring writer/performers Aziz Ansari, Rob Huebel, and Paul Scheer, and directed primarily by Jason Woliner. The show ran for two seasons on MTV. In interviews, the group has mentioned that they were off ...'' * '' Shutterbugs'', a Canadian educational animated series broadcast by TVOKids See also *" Shutterbugg", a song by Big Boi on the album ''Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty'' {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phosphorescent Paint
Luminous paint or luminescent paint is paint that exhibits luminescence. In other words, it gives off visible light through fluorescence, phosphorescence, or radioluminescence. There are three types of luminous paints: fluorescent paint, phosphorescent paint and radioluminescent paint. Fluorescent paint Fluorescent paints 'glow' when exposed to short-wave ultraviolet (UV) radiation. These UV wavelengths are found in sunlight and many artificial lights, but the paint requires a special black light to view so these glowing-paint applications are called 'black-light effects'. Fluorescent paint is available in a wide range of colors and is used in theatrical lighting and effects, posters, and as entertainment for children. The fluorescent chemicals in fluorescent paint absorb the invisible UV radiation, then emit the energy as longer wavelength visible light of a particular color. Human eyes perceive this light as the unusual 'glow' of fluorescence. The painted surface also r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
