Originally by Minolta

1 Supreme item sourced from Minolta

Minolta was a Japanese camera and optics manufacturer founded on November 11, 1928 by Kazuo Tashima in Osaka as Nichi-Doku Shashinki Shōten, meaning Japan-Germany Camera Shop. Tashima relied on German technicians Billy Neumann and Willy Heilemann, and imported German lenses and shutters for early models. The company adopted the Minolta name in 1931, an acronym for Mechanism, Instruments, Optics, and Lenses by Tashima. In 1985 it released the Maxxum 7000, the first commercially successful autofocus SLR. Minolta merged with Konica in 2003 and exited the camera business in 2006, selling its imaging division to Sony. Supreme has collaborated with Minolta on a co-branded compact film camera.