Minox Miniature Spy Cameras, Digitally Modern or Film Collectible?

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Minox Miniature Spy Cameras

Minox Cameras, the archetypal sub-miniature camera, was invented by engineer Walter Zapp, in 1936. Production first started in Riga, Latvia at VEF ran from 1937/1938 until 1943. After WWII, production was re-started in Germany from 1948.

Although primarily marketed as a luxury item, the Minox was also used as an espionage camera. Its close-focusing lens and small size made it perfect for covert uses such as surveillance or document copying. The Minox was used by both Axis and Allied intelligence agents during World War II. Later versions were used well into the 1980s. The Soviet spy John A. Walker Jr., whose actions against the US Navy cryptography programs represent some of the most compromising intelligence actions against the United States during the Cold War era, used a Minox C to photograph documents and ciphers. The espionage use of the Minox has been memorialized by Hollywood movies, and some Minox marketing efforts have played up the "spy camera" story.

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Minox DSC - the new Digital Spy Camera

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DSC is the name of the new mini MINOX model: Digital SpyCam. Still maintaining the outstanding masterpiece in minimalist design of Minox's past yet with current advanced photo technology packs, The Minox DSC is a 5MP digital camera packed into a 86 x 29 x 20 mm frame.

With a resolution of five million pixels, the DSC can compete with traditional digital cameras with ease. A bright viewfinder allows spontaneous, fast shots, even in critical light conditions. In twilight the integrated flash switches on automatically. In total these features make the new DSC a very sound optical notebook.

The system has an additional external flash that can be connected to the side of the DSC. And to provide the user with the accustomed convenience of a display for viewing film and image results the flash has an integrated 1.5 inch TFT LCD monitor. The image data can be saved on micro SD memory cards of up to 16 GB, in addition to the internal memory.

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Minox Classic Cameras

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The MINOX Classic Camera Collection includes legendary cameras, faithfully recreated in a scale of 1:3. All Classic Cameras are fully-functional and both, digital or analogue, achieve excellent photographic results. Models introduced includes the: Click here to shop all Minox Camera & Optics at Amazon.com.

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Minox 35mm Compact Cameras

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Current Minox 35 mm Compact Cameras includes the:

Minox 8x11

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The sub-miniature Minox 8x11 cameras use 8x11mm film in a small cartridge containing a strip of film 9.2mm wide, less than one-quarter the size of 35mm, capable of holding up to 50 frames. The fact that the camera holds the small negative in a "curved film plane" makes the sharpness of the tiny negative uniform to the very edge of the frame, resulting in more useable image area. The Minox enlarger holds the negative in this same curve.
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