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Minolta MC Fisheye Rokkor X 7.5mm F/4 Lens Review

James shoots and reviews the Minolta MC Fisheye Rokkor X 7.5mm F/4, the widest lens that Minolta ever produced.

Minolta MC Rokkor X 85mm F/1.7 Fast Prime Portrait Lens Review

James shoots Minolta’s first and fastest manual focus prime lens, the Minolta MC Rokkor X 85mm F/1.7. Plus sample shots and a buyer’s guide.

Shooting Lisbon with a Minolta SRT 303b and Kodak Ektar

Our own Jeb Inge visits sunny Lisbon, Portugal with a Minolta SRT 303b film camera and Kodak’s most vibrant film, Kodak Ektar 100.

Minolta V2 Review – the Fastest 35mm Rangefinder Camera of 1958

James reviews a unique 35mm film rangefinder camera from Minolta, the Minolta V2, the fastest leaf shutter rangefinder camera of its era.

The Sweetest Taboo – The Unlikely Story of Leitz Minolta

The 1970s were a great time for camera geeks. The decade brought us the apex of professional mechanical 35mm SLRs in the Nikon F2, and the beginning of the amateur…

Minolta XD 35mm Film Camera Review

I started shooting film with Minolta’s SRT-101, a historical camera that decades after its creation remains an outstanding machine capable of withstanding severe conditions. My personal SRT had clearly seen…

The Essentials – A Guide to the Best of Minolta’s Camera Systems

If you’ve chosen Minolta, welcome to The Cause. You’ve done some research and learned about the company that pioneered many of photography’s most important innovations. Autofocus, shutter-priority, in-body image stabilization,…

Minoltina P Camera Review – A Mostly Forgotten Full Frame Compact from Minolta

Editorial discretion at Casual Photophile dictates that we don’t write about every camera ever made, and the cameras that we do write about don’t necessarily need to be “the best.”…

Minolta X-570 and the Maxxum 7000 – The End (and Beginning) of an Era

Minolta’s story is almost Shakespearean; filled with both beauty and tragedy. The company was one of the most innovative and groundbreaking in the photo industry. They consistently invented new technologies…

The Minolta a7 is the Perfect Film SLR for Shooters Who Want it All

James reviews a Minolta AF SLR that’s so damn good it feels like launching into DOOM and instantly typing IDDQD.

Polaroid Spectra Pro / Minolta Instant Pro – The Most Creative Polaroid Cameras Around

In 1990, Minolta and Polaroid both released an improved version of the Spectra camera called the Instant Pro and Spectra Pro, respectively. These cameras were essentially the same as one…

Minolta MD Rokkor X 45mm F/2 Lens Review

I have a chambray button-down shirt that everyone seems to love. There’s nothing special about it and I bought it at the Bass outlet for less than $10. But every…

Minolta AF Macro 100mm F/2.8 A Mount Lens Review – Spoiler : It’s Perfect

Photography is a fluid craft. The light, our subjects, and even our interests are always in flux. So it helps when our gear can keep up. And it’s this uncommon…

Minolta Hi-matic 7sII – 35mm Film Rangefinder Camera Review

Beginning in the late 1970s, camera manufacturers began to turn away from fun and discrete rangefinders to bulky, and often boring, SLRs. But before totally abandoning the once-popular rangefinder, each of…