jeff_drew4 Posted October 30, 2004 Share Posted October 30, 2004 Martin or anyone else:<p>Have you tried TMAX 3200 or Delta 3200 at any of the high ISO settings like 1600 or 3200?<p>I realize there are metering and developing concerns, and I'm interested in hearing your tales. My self-assigned project is to exploit Minox at ISO3200. Grain & shadow details etc; yes I am aware of the risks and the objective is get an image that is scannable and have meaning - not "ART". After all, Minox IS a spy camera. What if "they" had ISO3200 during WWII? Ponderous!<p>Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard_oleson Posted October 30, 2004 Share Posted October 30, 2004 no, i haven't tried anything like that - the results will be interesting. i use 400 film in my Minoces, and that's pretty grainy, but you can still see pretty good detail through the grain.... :)= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john lehman, college alask Posted October 30, 2004 Share Posted October 30, 2004 I have (exposed at 1600). Prints are obviously grainy, but OK at small print sizes. It is useful to remember that TMZ and Delta 3200 have about the same amount of grain as 1950's Tri-X. On a slightly larger scale, I use both TMZ and High speed infrared alot in my Tessina (the latter with "invisible" IR flash). As you say, the cameras were intended for discrete picture taking, not 16 x 20 exhibitions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Photography Posted November 3, 2004 Share Posted November 3, 2004 Neither Walter Zapp nor Minox ever intended Minox to be a "spy camera". <P> See "Minox - Constant Companions of the World's 'Greats'"--- Minox Variations in 8x11, p17. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff_drew4 Posted November 5, 2004 Author Share Posted November 5, 2004 Martin, you are correct. However the design, my little beauties lend themselves to being inconspicuous and quiet. My intentions are playful and candids etc seem more spontaneous when a Minox is used. I have gotten terrific responses from friends and strangers when the LX is in use vs. a clunky SLR. I'm headed off on one of my tangents, but I learn as I go.<p> How's the weather up in your direction? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Photography Posted November 6, 2004 Share Posted November 6, 2004 Jeff, yes the Minox 8x11 are such beautiful and inconspicuous camera. MMinox is the favouite of many people, spies too.<P>Weather in Toronto is chilly, there may be flurries soon. During winter months, it is good time to enlarge the piles of Minox negativesI accumuated during the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff_drew4 Posted November 7, 2004 Author Share Posted November 7, 2004 Martin, Some day, maybe next spring, I have to head further in your direction and say "hello!" My son & his wife + first cousins are scattered about the Detroit area and we never seem to get past L. Huron. There are so many things to see in your direction, we will get there eventually. FWIW: I am in Wisconsin at the junction of I-90 & I-94. If you ever get this way, let me know. You are welcome - especially for "small" talk! :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j.w. Posted November 15, 2004 Share Posted November 15, 2004 Just an historic note, but what I've read leads me to believe full or half-frame 35mm was the preferred choice of spies "back then". Concealment was the big issue, but the larger negatives more than offset the bulk, if concealment was possible. There were exceptions, notably the John Walker spy ring's use of Minox. However, I was in the USN at the time Walker and Whitworth were plying their trade. In fact, Whitworth and I were on the Constellation at the same time, though I didn't know him personally. He was a Senior Chief; I was an E4. The main reason they used Minox is they had to bring a camera into the crypto room to photograph the key cards, and a camera the size of a Zippo lighter was easy to conceal in one's pocket, given that lots of people carried Zippos as matter of course. That said, I saw lots of people with 35mm SLR's taking photos all the time around the ship, mostly flight ops to show the family back home. If a camera were permitted in his work area, I'm sure he would have used 35mm instead of Minox. Being found with a Minox on a military installation back in the late '70's was tantamount to advertising one's secondary occupation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subminiature Posted November 25, 2004 Share Posted November 25, 2004 check out http://www.submin.com/8x11/collection/chadt/cameras/chadt_2002.htm Sample photographs all taken at the Photokina 2002 with the Cam 2002 and the 800 ASA Fuji Nexia APS-Emulsion film: - Minox stand, cosmetics, kiss. Taking available light photography is also the domain of the threatre and observing wild life. I have used 400 ASA film with room lighting, but regardless of the excercise I always found grain too much. With modern film the situation is very different. Gerald Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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