{"title":"Minolta","description":"\u003cp\u003eGhost Corp Apparel — resurrecting iconic corporate ghosts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFounded in Japan in 1928, Minolta grew into one of the world’s best-known camera and optical companies, producing everything from compact cameras to highly regarded SLRs and pioneering technologies such as autofocus systems that helped shape modern photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor decades, the Minolta name was everywhere photographers looked — camera shops, family vacations, press bags, and probably at least one drawer full of film nobody ever developed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen digital photography changed the rules.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMinolta merged with Konica in 2003 to form Konica Minolta, and just a few years later the company exited the camera business entirely, transferring much of its camera technology to Sony.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom film rolls and autofocus innovation to becoming part of somebody else’s camera system.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExplore our Minolta collection celebrating one of the great names from photography’s pre-smartphone age.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0955\/2517\/5580\/collections\/Minolta_Logo_3.png?v=1788520674","url":"https:\/\/ghostcorpapparel.com\/collections\/minolta.oembed","provider":"Ghost Corp Apparel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}