Production ceased when Konica Minolta announced their exit from the camera business in January 2006.

The 7D features a magnesium alloy body, plastic backside, and primarily external controls.

The Konica Minolta Maxxum/Dynax 5D and 7D both come with in-body image stabilization (IBIS): Konica Minolta's Anti-Shake Technology, in which the CCD is on a floating plane controlled by two actuators that work based on detected outside movement and create an inverse movement, thereby keeping the CCD in line with the image.

The next build of firmware (version 1.10) gave such a great improvement in camera performance that DPReview revised their initial review of the 7D to retract a couple of the main negative points, citing true USB 2.0 speeds up to 25 Mbit/s (up from 7.5 Mbit/s), blinking highlights in the camera's built-in playback mode, the addition of a remote storage function in the transfer modes, and faster times when writing to the CF memory cards.

[citation needed] In July 2005, Konica Minolta announced a partnership with Sony to research and develop camera technologies.

All Sony DSLR cameras came to support the Minolta α mount lens system which makes newer Sony-built lenses compatible with Maxxum bodies and Maxxum lenses compatible with newer Sony bodies.