{"id":34046,"date":"2026-04-29T01:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=34046"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:54:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:54:34","slug":"mini-projector-for-mini-slides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/mini-projector-for-mini-slides\/","title":{"rendered":"mini projector for mini slides"},"content":{"rendered":"
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lot 117 – a tiny Minox projector for colour transparencies taken with a subminiature Minox.<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. The tiny Minox<\/a> is the ultimate spy camera. It was created in 1937, just before WW2, in Riga<\/a>, Latvia. The chain on the tiny camera has ‘buttons’ for inches matching the lens focus settings for up close exposures.<\/p>\n

The lens is an f\/3.5 allowing relatively fast exposures. The aperture is fixed wide open, A curved film plane is part of the lens correction calculation (up to model B – changed to a flat plane when the lens was redesigned). The tiny focal length allows sharp prints from inches to infinity.<\/p>\n

What isn’t widely known, is that later on, special film for the tiny camera included colour transparency film. Special frames and a special tiny projector allowed these slides to be projected for viewing – just like 35mm and 2-1\/4 square transparencies.<\/p>\n

Lot 117 at our May 3rd spring (Estate) auction is one of the little Minox projectors, complete with \u00a0spare bulbs. Join us on May 3rd, 2026 at our Spring Auction. Free admission. Free parking. Friendly folk. A great way to spend a Sunday afternoon – whether balmy or not. Details and a poster<\/a> will be pinned to this site until the auction begins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. The tiny Minox is the ultimate spy camera. It was created in 1937, just before WW2, in Riga, Latvia. The chain on the tiny camera has ‘buttons’ for inches matching the lens focus settings for up close exposures. The … 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":[27],"tags":[500,35,34,279,1041],"class_list":["post-34046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auction","tag-accessories","tag-books","tag-cameras","tag-lenses","tag-projectors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34046","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=34046"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34051,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34046\/revisions\/34051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}