That was my next poser to ask, I am a fan of Canon & Minolta.

Oh well, in my research to sound reasonably intelligent, I googled and found out that Minolta stopped all camera production just over a year ago

Sony has taken over all the Minolta & Konica camera support, so I have to assume that Konica/Minolta sold the technology as well...

Sony is good stuff, any better than Canon??

When I went to Windsor CT in 1988 to train at the Konica plant, Digital was just on the horizon and they were producing some of the best imaging equipment available at that time.