Minox B
The Minox was advertised as a go anywhere pocket camera, but the small size and the ability to focus as close as 8 inches also made the camera famous as a spy camera. The Minox B was the most popular sub-miniature Minox. About 380,000 were made from 1958 to 1968 in West Germany. This little Minox B was made in 1964.
The camera has an aluminum body with a scale focusing f/3.5 15mm Complan lens and a shutter running from 1/1000 to 1/2 second plus B (bulb) and T (time). There is an unlabeled dot between 2 and B on the shutter speed dial, but that appears to set the shutter at 1/2, too. You open and close the camera using a sliding action that cocks the shutter and advances the film. The negative is a tiny 11 mm wide by 8 mm high.
The built-in selenium cell light meter can be set for film speeds from 25 to 400 ASA. The light meter is coupled to the shutter speed setting. For correct exposure you match the shutter speed to the meter reading by lining up the triangle on the scale with the needle on the meter. For exposure control a built-in neutral density filter with a 10x filter factor can slide over the lens. The camera automatically adjusts the light meter for this filter setting and allows you to take pictures in yt?bright sunlight with fast film. For exposure or contrast control with black and white film, a built-in green filter with a filter factor of 2 can slide over the lens. To set the shutter speed with the green filter in place you match the dot on the light meter scale to the needle.
Minox also made appropriately small accessories for the Minox camera, including a daylight film developing tank, a tripod adapter, a flash attachment, etc.
Blue Moon Camera and Machine, Portland, Oregon, still loads film into Minox cartridges. You can get Minox film directly from Blue Moon or from the Film Photography Project store and other retailers.
The camera has an aluminum body with a scale focusing f/3.5 15mm Complan lens and a shutter running from 1/1000 to 1/2 second plus B (bulb) and T (time). There is an unlabeled dot between 2 and B on the shutter speed dial, but that appears to set the shutter at 1/2, too. You open and close the camera using a sliding action that cocks the shutter and advances the film. The negative is a tiny 11 mm wide by 8 mm high.
The built-in selenium cell light meter can be set for film speeds from 25 to 400 ASA. The light meter is coupled to the shutter speed setting. For correct exposure you match the shutter speed to the meter reading by lining up the triangle on the scale with the needle on the meter. For exposure control a built-in neutral density filter with a 10x filter factor can slide over the lens. The camera automatically adjusts the light meter for this filter setting and allows you to take pictures in yt?bright sunlight with fast film. For exposure or contrast control with black and white film, a built-in green filter with a filter factor of 2 can slide over the lens. To set the shutter speed with the green filter in place you match the dot on the light meter scale to the needle.
Minox also made appropriately small accessories for the Minox camera, including a daylight film developing tank, a tripod adapter, a flash attachment, etc.
Blue Moon Camera and Machine, Portland, Oregon, still loads film into Minox cartridges. You can get Minox film directly from Blue Moon or from the Film Photography Project store and other retailers.
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