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1890 Spy Camera in Oslo
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The secret photographer's candid camera gives us a rare glimpse into the lives of real people as they were well over a century ago ~ thanks for sharing
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Very cool. A vanished world.
I've owned a number of Minox "spy cameras" since their heyday in the spy-craze sixties, and actually still have a roll of b/w film in this one:
People think miniaturization is a recent idea, but the Minox design dates to the 1930s! Its inventor didn't plan on making an espionage tool, he envisioned it as "a daily companion, like a fine watch"... a stylish accoutrement, if you will. (See what I did there?)
I've owned a number of Minox "spy cameras" since their heyday in the spy-craze sixties, and actually still have a roll of b/w film in this one:
People think miniaturization is a recent idea, but the Minox design dates to the 1930s! Its inventor didn't plan on making an espionage tool, he envisioned it as "a daily companion, like a fine watch"... a stylish accoutrement, if you will. (See what I did there?)
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I've got both this III-s and a B. I used to shoot color in the B, but stopped when Minox Processing Labs went out of biz a decade or so ago. I develop the b/w myself (my parents were pros, I grew up working in a b/w studio.) I have been slitting 35mm and reloading the Minox cassettes myself for around twenty years.
That is, I did. I'm having a hard time justifying using the Minox these days, that last roll of film's been in the camera for a couple of years now. (But I still like to put some Tri-X through my Nikon F2 every now and then. The look of shooting with film and old lenses is still unique!)
That is, I did. I'm having a hard time justifying using the Minox these days, that last roll of film's been in the camera for a couple of years now. (But I still like to put some Tri-X through my Nikon F2 every now and then. The look of shooting with film and old lenses is still unique!)
That's pretty much my experience, too. I haven't slit any film for almost a decade, because it's just easier to drop a 35mm cassette into my Nikon. Most of my work is digital now, but I still shoot and process a few rolls of TX every year. As you said, "The look of shooting with film and old lenses is still unique!".
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Amazing is the only word for it! Even though some of those pics seem as if the subjects were aware of the camera, there just aren't a lot of known street images of that era. Thanks for posting the link!
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