{"id":3944,"date":"2014-08-16T13:19:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T17:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=3944"},"modified":"2014-08-16T13:25:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T17:25:37","slug":"everyone-carries-the-modern-minox-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/everyone-carries-the-modern-minox-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone carries the modern MINOX today"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"ADOX<\/a>

I snapped this pair of ADOX MINOX film cassettes c1962 \u00a0with my iPod Touch<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto.<\/strong> In the late 1950s I was training to install, operate and maintain a radio system to bring communications to the wilds of Northern Quebec and Labrador. Part of the training included a trip to the manufacturer’s factory in Belleville where the equipment was being made.<\/p>\n

Dan F. brought along a nifty little spy camera and took shots in the factory to the dismay of our teacher\/leader. We processed the grainy little negatives that evening in Dan’s\u00a0hotel room. The tiny precision camera was a Minox<\/a> IIIs – about 3\/4s\u00a0the price of a Leica in those days.<\/p>\n

The camera came with a four element fixed aperture f\/3.5 lens and used a curved film plane as part of the lens correction. The tiny negative was 8×11 mm – about 1\/10 of a 35mm camera negative. Years later, I took 3rd prize in a contest using a Minox B. I shot a horse and caleche in Montreal at night and enlarged the image 48x!<\/p>\n

The other day, as I casually used the 5mp camera on my iPod Touch<\/a>, it occurred to me that the Touch had a camera roughly equal to the resolution of the Minox. The Touch’s 3.3mm f\/2.4 wide-angle lens does closeups, auto focusses, has flash, and adjusts the f-stop and ISO (ASA) to suit the lighting. It does both B&W and colour – and 1080p video too.<\/p>\n

Now everyone with a smart phone (most people) also have a tiny spy camera with them. \u00a0For example, my wife recently replaced her cell phone when Public Mobile shut down its old network. Her Samsung smart phone sports a 5mp camera.<\/p>\n

Last year, when we looked at bathroom appliances, only ONE store posted a NO CAMERAS sign (which everyone seemed to ignore). With smart phones, cameras are ubiquitous! And they can do both colour and video with instant results. MINOX anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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