The Minox camera was invented by Walter Zapp, a Baltic German born in Riga, Latvia in 1905. It’s a gorgeous gadget that forces us to turn it over and over in our hands and ask, “How’d they come up with this?” The Minox subminiature camera is an incredibly sophisticated machine, a marvel of old-world ingenuity. The entire length of the chain is 60cm, and when shooting at this distance a standard A4-sized document fits perfectly within the viewfinder’s frame. The minimum focus distance is 20cm (eight inches), impressively close, and the accessory chain attachment has metal markers on its length that correspond with the distances marked on the focus dial.
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Parallax compensation occurs automatically as the focus dial is turned. Focusing requires use of scale focus – guess our distance to subject and set the dial to the appropriate number. Shutter speeds range from a slow speed of 1/2 second to a high speed of 1/1000th of a second, with Bulb mode for long exposures. Shutter release is handled via a tiny button on the top of the camera, and there are two built-in filters (green and neutral density) to improve contrast and allow shooting outdoors when sensitive film is loaded. Settings are controlled via two dials on the top, one for shutter speed, and the other for focus distance. Fifty exposures (8 x 11mm frames) can be made on a single roll of film. The plunging action of closing and opening the entirely mechanical camera advances the film to the next frame and cocks the shutter. Its general functionality is the same as any Minox – open it up, insert the proprietary Minox film cartridge, close it and shoot. It exposes film through a 15mm F/3.5 high-quality lens that’s capable of making extremely detailed images on impossibly small negatives. At just 98 x 27 x 15mm, it’s about the size of a cheap cigarette lighter. It’s a tiny, aluminum-bodied machine made to fit in the closed palm of any photographer. The Minox B that I own is the most popular and plentiful Minox subminiature camera ever made. Earned reputation or no, today it’s hard to think of the Minox without imagining a shadowy hat snapping pilfered documents in a darkened, upstairs office during an embassy dinner.īut before the camera became a standard tool of Cold War intelligence services, and well before it appeared in the Bond flick On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, the Minox was impressing photo geeks with its incredible compactness and jewel-like build quality. But maybe that’s not entirely fair to the Minox subminiature camera, as it’s officially known (the “spy camera” nomenclature came about unintentionally when the tinier-than-most Minox camera was picked up by various intelligence services the world over).
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Okay, I’ve leaned pretty hard into the spy narrative here. But let’s also be clear – making great images with a Minox spy camera can be as prickly as running a thirteen hour SDR, in Moscow, in January. I’ve owned my Minox for about three years now, and I’d never sell this unique and historically important camera.
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And shooting a Minox in real life is more compromise and conundrum than elegant exposures.īut that’s not to say that owning and shooting a Minox camera (in my case, a Minox B made in Germany) is without its share of joys. The truth of spying is poring over paperwork and tedious meetings, not car chases and casinos. But like the fictitious spooks of novels and films that people have loved for more than half a century, the idea is sexier than reality. The idea of this tiny film camera is one of sophistication and luxurious style. The Minox spy camera is a near-perfect analog to the romantic myth of the charming spy.