{"id":13271,"date":"2018-12-02T07:49:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T11:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=13271"},"modified":"2018-12-02T18:17:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T22:17:27","slug":"i-spy-with-my-little-minox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/i-spy-with-my-little-minox\/","title":{"rendered":"I spy with my little Minox"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Joe Cooper’s 1958 ULTRA-Miniature Photography book<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. Whenever I think of the Minox, I think of spy cameras of which it was the most widely known back in the second world war days (WW2). The camera’s inventor, Walter Zapp, came up with the 8×11 mm frame format. I had two of the little cameras, a IIIs and a model B which was a IIIs with a selenium cell light meter.<\/p>\n

The tiny 15mm focal length, 4 element Complan lens uses a curved film plane to help correct it for curvature of field. A fixed aperture of f\/3.5 allowed the designer to maximize its corrections at that aperture. The lens could be focussed from 8 inches to infinity.<\/p>\n

I did a few posts<\/a> on the sub-miniature cameras in the days of film. My first experience with the Minox was when an associate of mine used his Minox system to capture images in a factory where cameras were verboten<\/em>. The area was a skunk works<\/em> operation, busy experimenting with new ideas.<\/p>\n

A big thanks to friend and PHSC founder John Linsky for his diligent research into the Minox camera beginning with this video showing the history<\/a> of Minox. John found the Crypto Museum<\/a> site featuring the original Riga Minox<\/a>. The little camera even has its own website<\/a> and collectors organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. Whenever I think of the Minox, I think of spy cameras of which it was the most widely known back in the second world war days (WW2). The camera’s inventor, Walter Zapp, came up with the 8×11 mm frame … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[2333,2332,282,2331,2334],"class_list":["post-13271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-complan","tag-latvia","tag-minox","tag-riga","tag-spy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13276,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13271\/revisions\/13276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}