Vintage Subminiature Camera

Vintage Minox B Subminiature Spy Camera with leather case, chain, and original documentation. The camera doesn’t appear to have been used. The outer box is very worn. About this camera (from Cryptomuseum. Com). Minox-B is an analogue high-quality subminiature camera that is small enough to fit in the palm of a hand. It was built by Minox in Germany as the successor to the post-war Minox A. For Many years it was the worlds most famous and widely used camera for espionage photography right until the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s. Production started in 1958 and ran to 1969 when it was replaced by the improved Minox C, which never surpassed the popularity of the Minox-B. Minox-B was the always ready for use. It was the first subminiature camera with a built-in light meter that did not require batteries. Based on a selenium cell, it converts light into electricity, and drives the meter directly. As a result, the camera is 15 mm longer than its predecessors, the Minox Riga and Minox-A. The Minox-B was by far the most popular of all Minox subminiature cameras, with 384,327 units manufactured between 1958 and 1969 [3]. In 1969, the Minox B was succeeded by the Minox C, but in 1972 and 1973 an improved version of the Minox-B – the Minox BL – was produced in small quantities. Apart from the new exposure meter – Cadmium Sulfide rather than Selenium – the Minox-BL was identical to the Minox-B.