Minox subminiature camera
Cámara subminiatura Minox
- Date
- 1936 · confidence high
- Place
- Riga, Latvia
- Credited to
- Walter Zapp
- Field
- Communication
What it is
A camera with a metal body little bigger than a lighter and a fast lens. It took 8 × 11 mm negatives and was the first mass-produced subminiature camera.
Zapp, a Baltic German born in Riga, conceived the camera in 1922; prototypes date from 1936 and the VEF company of Riga produced it in series. Production later moved to Germany.
What it led to
- spy cameras in the Second World War and the Cold War
- the 8 × 11 mm subminiature format
- discreet pocket photography