Minox B - Antique and Vintage Cameras

Minox B

1958

Minox G.M.B.H.

Wetzlar

West Germany

Image of Minox B

Lens:
f3.5, 15 mm Complan. Fixed stop. Coated. 4 elements in 3 groups.

Shutter:
Guillotine, speeded 1 - 1/1000, B. X flash synchronisation.

Construction:
Metal body.

Format:
50, 8 x 11 mm exposures on film held in double cassettes.

Focusing:
To .2m.

Attributes:
Bright-line finder with parallax correction.
Frame advance by rotating the centre of the cassette, this is carried out by closing the camera. Auto-stop on film-advance. Coupled to shutter.
Selenium exposure meter coupled to shutter, film speeds: 14 - 26 DIN.
Green and ND filters.

Serial Number:
752667 .

With:

  • Right-angle finder.
  • Tripod cradle with cable release socket.
  • Flash gun for bulbs, model with lock. In box, instructions and pouch.
  • Transparency viewer and cutter. In box, instructions.
  • Developing tank with thermometer. Box, instructions.
  • Pouch and chain.; Film cassettes, Adox KB14 film, speed: 14 DIN, 20 ASA, 36 exposure black and white in box dated 1972.

Production of the Minox restarted after the war at Wetzlar in 1945. This is a later model fitted with a selenium exposure meter. The film is un-perforated 9.5 mm wide and held in a double cassette, it is 75 cm long for 50 exposures. The film plane is curved. The price in 1960 was £79.12.7.

References & Notes:
BJA 1953, p. 239.; BJA 1959, p. 181.; Blue-Book 1960-1961, p. 70.; Blue-Book 1961-1962, p. 69.

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