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With the designation Minox connects itself this very day the classical model to one "secret or espionage camera ".
In the year 1936 in Reval/Tallinn, Estonia, the Ur-Minox of the learned photographer and technical designer walter Zapp with the film format 6.5 9 mm was developed. The subsequent model, the so-called "Rigaer Minox ", was an ultraminiature camera with the film format 8 11 mm, primarily due to its world-wide call as the espionage camera to world fame arrived. First the camera was produced starting from 1938 by a Rigaer company for electro-technology (VEF = Valsts Elektrotechniska Fabrika), which stands in no connection with the today's Minox GmbH. The first execution of the camera still differed from the later models by numerous details: Objectively, catch and Sucher were of simple construction, the housing of stainless steel were made and weighed for instance the double of the today's light alloy housings. "The Rigaer Minox was nevertheless "a camera, which wrote due to their - based on past standard constructions - revolutionary concept, their form, size and reliability history and is today a in demand collecting tank object.
After completion of the Second World War walter Zapp created 1945 in Wetzlar with its business partner Richard the Minox GmbH. The Minox was here first completely again designed: The simple objective of the origin model was replaced by a then ultramodern vierlinsiges objective with an impressing sharpness achievement, which can be not completely used this very day by the Filmmaterial for the camera the available. The past catch yielded very many more softly and noise-poorer working lamella catch, which became originally simple Durchsichtsucher replaced by a Leuchtrahmensucher with automatic Parallaxenausgleich. The company moved 1948 after Heuchelheim when pouring and began the first postwar model to produce, the later Minox A. Sie in the context of the Modelpflege in the year 1954 still with a synchronous contact for flashlight was equipped. 1958 followed the Minox B with coupled exposure meter. Because of this new designation of the camera the designation was later patriated "Minox A "in for the predecessor model.
In the year 1969 then as a new top model the Minox was brought to C on the market, one of the first cameras with electronic Belichtungsautomatik.Im year 1972 appeared the successor of the Minox B, the Minox BL, equipped with a CdS
As a successor of the Minox C starting from 1978 the Minox LX was produced. In technically hardly changed form this camera is this very day available as Minox TLX (with titanium-anodized aluminum housing) and/or as special model Minox CLX (with chromed and gouillochierter surface).
The spring 1981 published Minox EC is one - in the comparison to the LX - still smaller variant of the Minox 8 11 cameras (pushed together/taken off 80/95 15 30 mm By it plastic housing weighs it with 58 g besides 30 g less than the LX - this concerns the same plastic as with the Minox 35. Their low price came off by simpler technology: the fixed focus objective (f/5,6; ) close and document photographs, the automatic exposure no manual interference, only the exposure index does not permit 15 mm can be adjusted. For the Minox EC there is a plug-on essay for lightning cubes.
The Minox film is supplied to small cartridges, reeled when photographing to it by a side on the other one and finally taken again from the camera. This cartridge consisted of technical reasons still until far into the 1970er years inside of metal, then of plastic. The color material supplied above all Agfa, the black-and-white material initially to Adox with, later likewise Agfa. For the self processing Minox provided extensive accessories to the order, special Entwicklungsdosen gave it just like a Minox Of course Minox had also a still-picture projector in the offer. Originally one even offered a microfilm reader. So one could photograph documents and archive space-saving - a procedure, which lost with the arising of the photocopiers however fast at meaning and finally came into oblivion.
Minox istseit 2003 with some models within the range of the digital photography, which are based on own drafts, represented. In March 2006 the models Minox DC-5011 with 5 megapixels and the Minox DC-6011 are introduced slim with 6 megapixels.
1974 were introduced the first 35mm camera by Minox, the Minox 35 EL. She took over the title of the smallest camera for the miniature film of the Rollei 35. 1990 came the bag telescope Minox T8 developed by Zapp on the market. The company resides for approx. 1995 again in Wetzlar.
In the meantime Minox manufactures also historical reproductions of famous cameras, as for example the Leica M 3 - in miniature formats to scale -, which is usually offered both in a variant and ultraminiature camera and and digital camera.
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