When I was young, Konica and Minolta were two, separate, long established photographic titans. My mother owned a Minolta film SLR, which for many years was the most ‘proper’ camera in our household, and, in the early 2000s, Konica manufactured and released some of the coolest, well-reviewed digital compacts as part of its Digital Revio line-up. In parallel, Minolta also had its own inventively named ‘DiMAGE’ digital camera series.
But for a couple of decades, both brands disappeared. At least until the Minolta brand recently and mysteriously re-appeared for compacts licensed for sale in the States. So, what happened?
