Minox (pronounced / ˈmiːnɒks / MEE-noks) is a manufacturer of cameras, known especially for its subminiature camera. The first product to carry the Minox name was a subminiature camera, conceived in 1922, and finally produced in 1936, by Baltic German Walter Zapp. [1] .

2022年1月10日 · The classic Minox sub-miniature camera was originially designed by the Estonian engineer Walter Zapp. It was produced in Riga (Latvia) by Valsts Electrotechniska Fabrika (VEF) in 1937-1944. After the war, the camera was further developed in Wetzlar, Germany, and the first German Minox was released in 1948.

2015年8月19日 · How film was loaded into the Minox. You’ve seen it in films and on television: the spy breaks into the villain’s office, removes a tiny camera from his jacket pocket and begins shooting pictures of secret plans. The camera is a strange one, made of shiny metal, long and slim, about the size of an index finger.

The Minox subminiature camera, in its various models, was the world’s most widely used spy camera. When it first became available, the camera was considered a marvel of technology; it was originally made from steel in Riga, Latvia, from 1937 to 1944.

For 50 years, the Minox was the essential spy camera. It could take 50 pictures without reloading, and its high resolution lens captured a remarkable amount of detail. John Walker, a U.S. naval officer who ran a KGB spy ring in the 1970s, used a Minox camera to …

It was built by Minox in Germany between 1948 and 1969. It has the same size as the earlier Minox Riga and is therefore the smallest subminiature camera ever made by Minox. The camera is also known by its numerical denominator: II or III (I was the original Minox Riga). The body of the camera is made of aluminium rather than stainless steel.

Minox is a German – formerly Latvian – manufacturer of subminiature cameras. They are most famous for their range of subminiature espionage cameras – such as the Minox-B – that became extremely popular during the Cold War when it was used on both sides of the Iron Curtain .

2020年6月15日 · The Minox EC is by far the smallest and lightest camera in the family and measures just 80mm long (compared to 97 for B, which is ~20% more). I often wonder how did they manage to pack all that electronics, lens, film, and the battery in!

2018年10月3日 · It’s a tiny, aluminum-bodied machine made to fit in the closed palm of any photographer. At just 98 x 27 x 15mm, it’s about the size of a cheap cigarette lighter. It exposes film through a 15mm F/3.5 high-quality lens that’s capable of making extremely detailed images on impossibly small negatives.

The Minox camera is the smallest camera in the world and it was designed and built in the 1930s in Latvia. For its time, it was very technologically advanced and remains to this day a fine example of excellent product design. The brainchild of Valters Caps, the Minox camera is a mere 17 x 27 x 80 mm in size and weighs 125 grams.