Links


Independent Minolta -sites

Minolta User's Group, known as MUG    - the unofficial central of Minolta-related information in the web
    The European mirror site
    The British mirror site
    The US mirror site

The Rokkor Files One of the newest and best Minolta sites!

Chris' Photography Pages contain a lot of info on Minolta and other photography - he also hosts the british MUG pages.

Paul van Soest is a camera collector with lots of information about Minolta at his site.

Minman - a page for manual focusing Minoltas

http://cameraquest.com has several Minolta - related pages:
    Minolta 7SII     - a p&S rangefinder
    CLE     - the top of the Minolta rangefinders
    CL     - the Leitz/Minolta co-operation
    Minolta SR-2     - the first Minolta SLR body
    Minolta SR-2 black     - a rare specimen
    Minolta SR-1 black     - not so rare (I've seen one!)
    Minolta SR-2 ads     - historical ads
    Minolta MD Rokkor-X 85mm f2.8 VARISOFT     - a special soft focus lens

Photography in Malaysia has also some excellent Minolta pages in their "Modern classic SLR Series" -section
    XM / XK Motor     - the only pro Minolta manual focusing SLR ever made
    XD-11     - the first multi-mode SLR
    X-700    - the last serious MF SLR from Minolta

Jim Boritz has a good X-700 page

And finally, if you are a lucky owner of the Minolta 35mm f2.8 ShiftCA lens, here you can find it's manual - and a lot of other stuff about Minolta as well, at Christian Deichert's  photo pages.
 

Manual focusing Minolta -specified mailing lists
    - there are many of them

MML was the original Minolta Mailing List, where it all started. The list itself died some years ago, and most users moved to Egroups minolta-group. It turned into a Yahoo!group when Yahoo bought the Egroups.

Boonedocks.net - a searchable archive of the original MML, still working and containing great information

Egroups had several Minolta lists, which were then mooved to Yahoo! groups:

    minolta - the overall Minolta group, successor of the original MML, mainly AF but also some MF discussion
    manualminolta - a group for manual focusing minolta owners - strict rules
    manualminoltafree - a group for those who don't like the previous. Also a good one. You may meet me there.
    MinoltaXK - a group for fans of Minolta XK and other old Minoltas

    to find more (like Israel or Benelux-lists), make a search at Yahoo!Groups for minolta.

Yahoo also had some Minolta lists before it bought Egroups, they are at Yahoo! clubs:

    Mind of MINOLTA - an overall Minolta group
    Minolta X 700 Club - for X-700 users

This is not all - we are fewer than Nikon users, but I doubt they can ever overcome us in the number of mailing lists!

Official Minolta pages can be found at www.minolta.com

Links to other classic cameras can be found here www.antiquecameras.net
 

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