This particular camera is one of the earliest and in quite nice condition. Click on the small 'thumbnail' pictures below to go to larger ones. If you find any errors on this page or have any camera I might be interested in, PLEASE LET ME KNOW. See Clayton Rye's site for comprehensive Autocord model details I have one of their rather odd little 110 Zoom SLRs in my non-TLR collection. They also produced the first camera with integral autofocus, (Maxxum/Alpha 7000) in 1985. The company was (and still is) known for innovation, creating the first SLR with fully-coupled metering (SR-7) and the first model with built-in motor drive (SR-M). In 1962, the name changed again to Minolta. After WW II, Chiyo made a series of Leica clones, the Minolta 35 rangefinder.

The Minolta brand first appeared in 1937. In 1937 it was renamed Chiyoda Kogaku Seiko Kabushiki Kaisha or Chiyoko for short - this name appears on many early Minolta TLRs and lenses. Minolta began making cameras in 1928 as 'Nichi-doku Shashinki Shokai' (Japanese-German Camera Factory), set up by Kazuo Tashima, who ran the company until 1972.

I'm looking for early postwar models and in the market if anyone's selling!

The model range is enormous, because each spec change is seen as a new model - and they made lots of them. Minolta TLRs Minolta TLRs Minolta vies with Mamiya for the longest production run of Japanese TLRs, but started much earlier with the original Minoltaflex.

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