The Minox is one of the finest objects I ever touched: it over 40 years old and it looks and works as if it was brand new. It is a lot different from every other camera I used, I've been practicing using it with no film for now. With some practice I think I'll be able to frame without aiming through the viewfinder. This morning on the subway I took close up pictures of interesting people just handling the camera as if it was something else. Now I wish I had film in the camera.
On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 17:13, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > On Jun 30, 2005, at 8:57 AM, Joaquim Carvalho wrote: > > > I just received the brand new Minox B I bought cheap from Ebay and > > I'm feeling very excited. > > I hope you enjoy your Minox. They're quirky and fun. I've been > shooting with Minox cameras for many years. I have Minox IIIS, B, C, > EC and CLX models, spanning 1954 to 2000 vintage. > > > Checked the meter sensitivity against my DS and the Minox is > > overexposing by a full F stop, or I guess the DS may be underexposing > > a bit: without exposure compensation no areas on my photos ever reach > > full brightness (checking on the histogram) but I suppose this is > > good. > > The Minox B's selenium cell meter is certainly no model for > accuracy ... never was, and it is now 30+ years old. Don't trust it, > learn what it's telling telling you but also learn to estimate exposure. > > > Film size is only 8x11mm but that won't stop me from having fun. > > I'll start by trying some close-up street photography, this camera is > > so small, side by side with the DS it doesn't even look like a camera. > > > > Cheap scanners don't have enough optical resolution to fully > > capture the > > detail on this very small (I should use 25 ASA film and the Minox lens > > is very sharp) so I think my best choice would be using some bellows > > with my M 50mm F4 Macro lens to re-shoot the images with my DS. > > Two small galleries of photos from my Minox work: > > http://homepage.mac.com/godders/PhotoAlbum36.html > http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/minox-00-01/ > > These were made with a Minox EC. The first set was Minopan 100 (Agfa > APX100) @ EI200 in XTOL 1:1, negs scanned on an Epson 2450 at > 2400ppi. The second set was Minopan 25 (Agfa APX25) @EI50 in XTOL > 1:1, negs scanned on a Minolta Scan Dual II at 2820ppi. I've made > 6x8" prints from both of these sets that look good (the low-rez web > versions don't do them justice). > > I have tons more Minox pictures that are not on my current website. > Perhaps I'll dredge a few more galleries out of my local archive... > > I've been scanning Minox negatives with the DS using an A50/2.8 Macro > and extension tubes to achieve a 2:1 magnification ... Haven't > printed any yet, but that gives me a very nice 2000x2750 pixel > (5.1Mpixel) image to work with. From that, I am sure I can make > excellent 11x14 and larger prints. > > Ask me anything about Minox stuff ... ;-) > > Godfrey > >
