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<p>Thanks for pointing that out to me. I am going to see about getting one.<br>

Sad to hear the end of 8x11mm camera production.<br>

But it has been a long time coming I guess, and nothing lasts forever.<br>

IMHO, they lasted longer than most. And with the high quality of the cameras<br>

still extant, will likely be around for 50 more years or more.</p>

 

<p>Most interesting, all these responses. I have been using Minox B since 1999.<br>

I agree with Bill Mitchell about the printing services; same experience. I would get stunning results, and then very bad. I want something for my $30-50 / roll. I am a Color Photographer. During my period of regular Minox use, 1999-2003, I actually went to the trouble of cutting, and slitting, Velvia into my cassettes and processing in a Tetanol kit E-6. I did this because I was having such widely varying results from the processors; the Slide is the film of Record. I got Excellent results; and even projected them. I still have 4 rolls of minox slide film, uncut, like jewels.<br>

After all, I get fine results with my Mamiya Six, Hasselblad, Rolleiflex, Nikon F, why would I NOT with the Minox?<br>

but the expense and lack of quality from the Color printers is what did it in for me.<br>

What I want to see is a 1963 Minox B outfitted with a Digital chip. I have seen small cameras at stores with tiny chips and good results, better than I ever got with Minox Prints, it could be done. it's just a brief flicker of light, the shutter opening onto either the film or chip. I am sure the Minox doc could do it. Just mount a card somehow and away you go.<br>

I know they make modern Minox Digital but I don't want plastic! Nor automatic. As regards the settings (white balance, etc) for the chip, I find that with my Nikon D40 Digital I basically Never change the settings (lazy, or always used under the same conditions). so the chip could be 'preset' to certain parameters and that would be that.<br>

Anyway that is what I want. My B has had yet another roll of color film in it, for about a year, will it ever get developed, I don' t know.<br>

I can easily do black and white, have developed it Rodinal 400:1 and all that, the fact is, I just don't want to. </p>

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<p>Hi, does anyone know how to add a Photo to an ad that is already running?<br>

Thanks,<br>

SB</p>

<p>Excellent photographs! the Bronica S2 is an superb and underrated camera. The build quality of these was very high. The weight, and the amount of machinery packed into it is something else. I had one for 10 years and would be pleased to use it again. It had a complete extension tube set, even a lens reversing ring(!). When I bought a Hasselblad, I compared the cameras side by side with slide film and there was no difference. the 75MM Nikkor is really an excellent optic.</p>

<p>I have just bought a New Minox LX (NOS). I thought that after using a Minox B for 10 years, I could have another one (!).<br>

The LX is a very interesting camera, and this one seems to operate perfectly. The autoexposure function is actually very handy.<br>

I have run a roll of film through it and will be interested to see the results. I also did a few comparison shots with the Minox B.<br>

This will be processed by Blue Moon since it is color.<br>

I could have shot Minopan and processed it an hour later, but I am reasonably satisfied that the camera works as advertised.<br>

At some future point I will try to post some color shots. There have been many excellent BW seen, but not too many color, to show what the camera is capable of, to those who might be interested.<br>

I recently had a 9 year old roll of film processed by Blue Moon (Minox color film) that had been stored in no particular manner. The prints looked fine!<br>

A roll shot earlier this year did not look as good (grainy, etc). At least it was in focus. After getting an entire roll back blurred from the other Lab in 2005, I basically put the Minox B away, thinking that it might have fallen and had its focus mechanism disturbed.<br>

But this roll of 2009 proved that was not the case.<br>

Anyway, I think that the 9 year old roll may have been MinoPro color. If there is that much difference between the two, it is too bad that Minopro is no longer available.<br>

If these new rolls are also grainy, I will have to see about splicing Ektar into the cassettes.</p>

The lubricant has congealed, so you have to take the lens apart and clean out the old, then install fresh. After that, it will be perfect. This is a fairly common problem with old German lenses such as E German Zeiss, etc...referred to in books on the subject. The repair is quite simple. Actually, you are not taking the lens apart - you are rolling it in situ out of its focusing barrel (on an SLR lens, that is - I am have not examined Rollei). If you cannot undertake it yourself, you need a repairman. Don't spray anything in there - you will be wasting your time. Until relubrication, it is best to leave the lens set at Infinity and shoot landscapes.

THe best thing to do is to take a cassette, pull it apart, and fool

around with it. You only waste one charge of film, and it is time

well spent. The cassettes seem a bit complex, but once you take them

apart you find they are so simple that there is really nothing to them

at all - it's amazing to me that they work without binding, take up

correctly, etc. but they do...you must examine them in daylight. By

the way, minox film can also be cut, spooled, and loaded into

cassettes in daylight...no darkroom needed at all.