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From: phr@ucbvax.ARPA (Paul Rubin)
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Subject: Re: Minox problem
Message-ID: <7324@ucbvax.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 21-May-85 01:46:01 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 21 01:46:01 1985
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Summary: The Minox 35 series are full-frame 35mm cameras that use normal cassettes.  The subminiature Minoxes are completely different beasts.

In article <10761@brl-tgr.ARPA>, ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) writes:
> Buy Minox film in bulk...hmm, interesting.  I used to bulk load my Minolta
> P-16, but it used 16mm B-Wind movie film.  Pretty easy to come by.  No one
> seems to use a lot of 9.5mm movie film anymore.  Sprockets down the middle
> never seemed to catch on.

Actually the Minox spy models don't use 9.5mm movie film.  They
use 9.5 mm wide sprocketless strips of film that are cut down from
35mm stock at the Minox factory.  I have thought about trying to
do this myself for a while, but haven't thought of a good way to slit
the film with any precision (get a template made at a machine shop?).
Unfortunately the only color neg emulsion available from Minox is
repackaged old-fashioned Agfacolor 80 -- slow and grainy.  A Minox
neg is very slightly larger than a Disc neg, and much sharper because
of the flatter film plane and superior Minox optics, but noticably
grainier even though Disc film is 200 ISO.  Any ideas?  9.5mm Minoxes
aren't very popular any more, so please reply by mail and I'll summarize.

	paul