58 RECORDING - ADVANCED OPERATION
RECORDING WITHOUT A MEMORY CARD
If no memory card is installed in the camera, a single still image can be recorded and saved in the
camera’s buffer memory.Only the last image captured is stored; each time an image is captured, it
replaces the image data saved in the buffer. If the camera is turned off, the image data is deleted
from the buffer memory. Playback mode can be used to view the image.Voice memo cannot be used.
In the center of the Sakai plant in Japan is Okina
bridge. In the 15th century, Sakai was a very pros-
perous free city, and Okina bridge spanned the
moat at one of the entrances into the walled town.
For centuries, this bridge carried pilgrims on their
way to two of Japan’s sacred places: the mountain
monastery of Koyasan and the great Shinto shrine,
Kumano Taisha.
The bridge in the courtyard dates from 1855. In
1968, Minolta offered to remove and preserve the
bridge when the city government announced they
would fill in the moat for a planned highway.The
bridge now spans a specially constructed goldfish
pond.The writing on the stone bollard at the front of
the bridge prohibits vehicles from crossing.
Minolta history