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- From: phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin)
- Subject: Re: Shirt Pocket Cameras
- In-Reply-To: borrel@dhhalden.no's message of 24 Jan 93 13:19:13 GMT
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:55:55 GMT
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- In article <borrel.727881553@fenris.dhhalden.no> borrel@dhhalden.no (B|rre Ludvigsen) writes:
-
- Why is not the MINOX 35 mentioned? Except for the absence of a builtin
- flash, it's the only tru shirt pocket 35 mm camera I know with decent
- optics.
-
- Nice as the Minox 35's were in their day, I feel time has passed
- them by:
- - built-in flash is pretty much a necessity, a separate
- flash defeats the purpose of a shirt pocket camera
- - Except for some more recent, expensive models, the Minox's
- light meters only went up to EI 400. I like to shoot 1600 film.
- - They were a pain in the neck to load film into (very silly
- takeup spool design, may have been fixed in later models)
- - no AF, and no auto film advance
- - they were unreliable.
-
- They did take nice pictures when they worked and you focused them
- accurately and they had enough light, etc.
-