MacUser Magazine Awards The Minolta RD-175 DigitalCamera Best New Professional Digital Camera Of...

RAMSEY, NJ--(BUSINESS WIRE)--JANUARY 9, 1997--Minolta Corporation announces that its RD-175 Digital Camera won Best New Professional Digital Camera at MacUsers's 12th Annual Editors' Choice Awards (Eddy) during MacWorld Expo in San Francisco. During a ceremony held at the Masonic Temple in San

"We are grateful to the industry for recognizing digital imaging products as an important tool for computer users. We are particularly proud that MacUser magazine awarded the Minolta RD-175 digital camera with the Eddy award for best new professional digital camera," said Jon Sienkiewicz, Director of Digital Product Strategy and Entrepreneurial Activities for Minolta Corporation's Consumer Products Group, "The Minolta RD-175 Digital Camera is one of our premier digital products, offering the highest quality digital images for a host of vertical and desktop publishing applications, adds Sienkiewicz."

The Minolta RD-175 Digital Camera combines proprietary electronic imaging technology with Minolta's highly-acclaimed Maxxum autofocusing single-lens reflex (SLR) camera system. This results in a new type of hybrid product which uses state-of-the art digital imaging technology, rather than film, to produce high-quality color or black-and-white digital images. These images can be downloaded into many popular computer desktop publishing systems where they can be cropped, retouched or otherwise manipulated before printing.

The RD-175 incorporates a Minolta Maxxum 500si camera that uses its computer-controlled autofocusing and autoexposure systems to provide basic imaging capabilities. The Maxxum 500si's camera back has been replaced with a Minolta-designed proprietary camera back which incorporates three linear CCD digital imaging sensors, a total of 1.75 million pixels. Images are stored on a removable 131MB PCMCIA card capable of storing up to 110 images. Images can be accessed using an Adobe PhotoShop plug-in module in either a Macintosh or Windows environment.

Minolta Corporation, headquartered in Ramsey, New Jersey, is the largest subsidiary of Minolta Co. Ltd., of Osaka, Japan, a leading manufacturer of cameras, business equipment, radiometric instruments and planetariums.

Minolta Corporation's Consumer Products Group (CPG) markets film and digital cameras, video camcorders, binoculars, accessory lenses, photographic meters, 35mm slide scanners and other consumer products. Minolta is the exclusive distributor of Cokin filters, as well as Snappy Video Snapshot and PC FM!

The corporation's Business Products Group (BPG) markets digital and analog office equipment. Products include black-and-white copiers, plain-paper laser facsimile machines, digital color copier/printers, micrographic systems, electronic image and information management systems and related office equipment.

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