Shortly after this time, both Billy Neumann and Willy Heilemann left the company to form their own company simply called Neumann & Heilemann. The word “Molta” is an acronym of a German translation meaning “Mechanism, Optics and Lenses by TAshima”.
In 1931, the company changed its name to Molta Gōshi-Gaisha. In 1929 Nichi-Doku released its first camera, a folding 6 x 4.5 cm camera known as the Nifcarette which was inspired by similar German folding cameras of the time. The company was originally known as Nichi-Doku Shashinki Shōten which translates to “Japanese-German Camera Shop”. Tashima enlisted the help of German camera technicians Billy Neumann and Willy Heilemann to help him design Japanese made cameras, but utilizing German expertise. Minolta was a Japanese company founded by Kazuo Tashima in 1928 in Osaka, Japan. Lenses: 50mm f/1.8 and 28mm f/2.8 Auto RokkorĮxposure Meter: TTL Central Zone CdS meter with LED Viewfinder Readoutīattery: (2) S76 Alkaline, Silver-Oxide, or Lithium Cells The XG7 was one of first Minolta SLRs to use the company’s new “Auto” MD bayonet lens mount.
Both the XG and XD series came in a smaller body, had aperture priority auto exposure modes, and used common 1.5v alkaline/silver oxide/lithium batteries instead of the 1.35v mercury batteries of the previous generation. The XG series was considered to be more entry level compared to the higher end XD series, and both the XG and XD series followed the successful SR and SRT lines of Minolta SLRs first introduced in the late 1950s. Minolta sold the exact same camera in Japan and in other markets as the XG-E and XG2.
The name XG7 refers to a model sold in the United States only. This is a Minolta XG7 (Minolta refers to it as an XG-7 on paper, but the camera’s name plate says XG7) which is a manual focus 35mm SLR camera introduced in 1977.
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