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- From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Subject: Re: Minox camera?
- Message-ID: <17494@pitt.UUCP>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 19:00:16 GMT
- References: <lgfmp0INN82b@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <1992Nov16.182817.2418@inmet.camb.inmet.com>
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- In article <1992Nov16.182817.2418@inmet.camb.inmet.com> tg@inmet.camb.inmet.com (Tom Gearty) writes:
- >My uncle gave me a camera that resembles the kind you see spies using
- >to take pictures of top secret documents in James Bond movies. I have
- >never seen anything like it, and cannot even figure out how to open
- >it to load and unload film.
- >
- Pull the camera open (cocks the shutter), there should be a little
- moon shaped depression revealed on the bottom. Press your fingernail
- into it and you should be able to pull the camera apart, and load
- the film. Film comes in little reel-to-reel cassettes. It takes
- 9.5mm Minox film. Most large camera stores will have some. It
- ain't cheap. Get slow speed film if you don't like grainy pictures,
- since the negatives are tiny.
-
- >The camera is only 1 inch wide and 4 inches long--it looks like an elongated,
- >all-silver cigarette lighter. There are three dials on the top that appear
- >to control film ASA, shutter speed, and distance from subject. An
- >interesting aspect is that the shutter speed and ASA dial are connected such
- >that rotating one automatically adjusts the other.
- >
-
- The ASA dial is set when you load the film. Once you close the
- camera, the ASA dial is really just a pointer that lines up with
- the light meter needle, which is what controls the shutter. The
- lens stays at f:3.5 all the time.
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