You can if your favorite style of photography is portrait, indoor or in the evening/night. With the Konica Minolta digital SLR, you can use any old lens you have lying around and it becomes an image stabilized (IS) lens because the the IS is built into the camera. If you want image stabilization with a Canon digital SLR you have to purchase a special lens to get it. This is different from the Canon cameras where image stabilization is only offered in the lenses, not the camera body. Here's the best part: the image stabilization works with ANY Minolta lens that is compatible with the camera. Let's be clear: this is not going to take clear shots if you are whipping the camera around, but it will eliminate mild vibration when you are trying to hold the camera steady. It can move around and compensate when you shake the camera with your hand. In this camera, the sensor is not firmly attached to the camera. The Konica Minolta digital SLR has built-in image stabilization. The Maxxum 7d and the next generation 5d feature a special innovation that is not available on any other digital SLR on the market. Post-merger, the new company spent a lot of time developing their first Konica Minolta digital SLR: the Maxxum 7d. Both were getting left behind with the digital revolution. Konica made film and Minolta offered a wide variety of film SLR cameras. In 2003, two companies firmly rooted in film decided to make the jump to digital. You may have heard of Minolta cameras also called Konica Minolta cameras. They are selling their digital SLR production to Sony, so expect to see a Sony digital SLR sometime soon.Ĭomplete press release from Konica Minolta Konica Minolta
The company was losing money to competitors, and has been scaling back production for some time. Konica Minolta has issues a press release that states they will no longer be producing digital cameras.
January 2006 Update - No More Konica Minolta Cameras