Saturday, February 06, 2010

Alpha Mount is 25 Years Old?

I am not too sure but I have been told that the Alpha Mount in the Sony DSLR series is 25 years old!  That’s a lot older than I thought.  The first camera with the Alpha Mount was the Minolta Maxxum 7000 (or Alpha 7000 in Japan).  Other notable first for the Maxxum 7000 are:

  • First in-body Auto Focus
  • First SLR with fully automatic film handling

Maxxum

Other interesting facts is that older Alpha Mount lenses have five electrical contacts whilst the latest once (have been told since 1991) have 8 contact points.

Minolta7000

A picture of the Minolta Maxxum 7000.

2 comments:

kuanhoong said...

Err so what is this blog all about?

Ian Tan said...

telling you that Sony Alpha is not a new boy, got lots of innovation marh ...