What Is The Smallest Digital Minox Camera
No, it was not dear at first sight. The first time I saw the Minox EC I did not fall madly in love with this minor piece of black plastic from the nineties. I was overjoyed and so with my Minox B, a slick and jewerly-like bar of matte aluminum graced with knobs, chains, 007 movies amuse, and virtually unchanged since my grandpa was loosing his teeth for the offset time.
The Minox EC lacks that elegance, is plain and simple, not unlike the swarm of plastic-fantastic 35mm indicate and shoots from the same era. Information technology's notwithstanding a Minox though, and despite beingness made of plastic, feels like a quality product.
It'southward actually quite like to the infamous Minox 35 series, another world smallest camera (of its kind, and yep, I did compare side by side with Rollei 35 and XA). The family unit portrait clearly shows that the Minox EC tin really be called the 35ths small brother: same design linguistic communication in listen, aforementioned materials (Makrolon, if yous are interested), and even easier to operate.
Unfold the Minox EC (this advances the film), compose your flick using surprisingly vivid viewfinder including bright lines for the 50mm equivalent 15/five.6 Minoxar lens, and shoot. The aperture and focus are fixed, and the shutter speed is automated from 1/500s to 8s. The only control choice y'all take besides the framing, is to change your mind and not to accept a picture (for example if a cherry led lights up to warn you of a slow shutter speed). It's an ultimate point and shoot!
The good the bad and the lens
That comes with the usual limitations, of course (backlit subjects, closeups, tiresome/fast motion…), but information technology'south not always a bad thing, actually. Heed that the original Minox (A) was marketed as a simple camera where you don't accept to worry nearly the aperture and merely have one variable to control (shutter speed), so the Minox EC is actually not an ugly duckling in the family. At least, I learned to appreciate that quite quickly once I started to use information technology later finally fishing it out of the box where it came in together with my Minox B (yep, my start Minox EC was a "lens cap" bought by chance with the B).
The biggest advantage of Minox EC over the older Minoxes is evidently the speed of operation (open up and shoot, which allows to grab those fleeting moments). If that's still not quick plenty, you lot can besides just shut the camera without loosing a frame (as it is on A and B).
Other advantages are, surprisingly, its size, weight, and robustness. Who could accept thought that I'd notice the B bulky and delicate by comparison. The Minox EC is by far the smallest and lightest camera in the family and measures merely 80mm long (compared to 97 for B, which is ~20% more).
I often wonder how did they manage to pack all that electronics, lens, movie, and the battery in! More than importantly, however, that it weights half as much at 45g vs 92 including the battery. That'southward a fleck more canister of 35mm film, and allows one to wear it on the neck without worrying likewise much about how it dangles around. Or put in jeans lighter pocket. Or in any pocket with keys, knives etc. It will get some scratches, simply the black Makrolon volition handle information technology!
Another big bespeak in its favour is that it at that place'south an electronic flash unit of measurement for it which shares the same atomic size (the blackness box in the lower right of the picture above). Well, it's withal larger than the camera, but nonetheless is the smallest unit I've seen also the ones included with the early Sony NEX cameras. It takes single AAA battery is also fully automatic! Considering that deadening films with ISO less than 100 are typically used with Minoxes, it's difficult to over-appreciate the possibility to snap-on a flash to take indoor pictures.
And, finally, the Minox EC lens. It'southward slower than in other Minoxes (f5.6 vs 3.five to allow hyperfocal shooting from 1m), and is said to be not so sharp as the COMPLANs used in other models. I did not find it to be the instance, notwithstanding. Not only for people pictures from 2-5m which is what this camera is made for, but as well for landscapes.
I would say that in most cases, similarly to other Minoxes, you will be limited by the format itself rather than the lens. It is slower, merely did I mention there's a flash? The Minox EC lens withal has a big advantage over the lenses of A-B-C series. While I do regularly catch spectacular flares with my B (most likely from its built-in UV filter and shiny aluminium surrounding it), I'm yet to see the Minox EC flare. That's probably a combination of more mod coatings and the deeply recessed lens.
Anyways, I find it to be the principal reason to prefer Minox EC over the B every time I go outside on a sunny day. Luckily this is still possible in Germany, even if one notwithstanding needs to stay away from other people for the moment.
So what do you go in the finish?
Beneath are several pictures showing what it can do. Non the all-time ones, simply ones from existent life. Casual snaps: that's what the Minox EC is designed for, after all.
Most frames are from a whorl of Adox HR50 with Minox EC taken last weekend and almost ruined by my sloppy development. I finally got Minox daylight developing tank and that was the first time I tried to use it. Information technology's another genius invention of Walter Zapp which is hard to explicate in a few words, so information technology's ameliorate to come across some Youtube videos of tank in action.
I slit and load my film myself so it'due south missing the hole required to attach the film to the spiral which pulls it out of the cassette once you close the tank. I did cutting one with scissors, but not deep plenty, and then the film was non pulled out and remained in the cassette submerged in chemical science. I did not realise until I finished developing and fixing and opened the tank to wash the picture. I dared to repeat the process all over once more, and surprisingly it worked!
The frames were developed and fixed twice, which is the first and kind of special for to me. Otherwise, the programmer was Hour-DEV, and fourth dimension 15 minutes with 1 agitation at seven min. The scanning was and so done using the inexpensive zoom dia-duplicator at 2.5x and my Sony A7.
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