Pastyonder.com: Minolta's early use of AI in photography

[Andreas Thaler]

I keep coming back to Minolta as a pioneer in camera construction.

And who knows, maybe one day I'll encounter the artificial intelligence still slumbering in the ICs when I open an xi-series SLR ;-)

Minolta's use of AI in photography

Minolta may not be the first company that springs to mind when you think about cameras, but it pioneered the use of AI in photography way back in the 1990s.

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[Dirk Münchgesang]

Nikon, Canon, and others took a different approach, using tens of thousands of reference images. The processor then extracted the correct exposure from this database. The question is whether Minolta, with its open approach, produced a better image in borderline cases? Theoretically, yes, since a fixed database reaches its limits when nothing quite matches.