Another Minox Slideshow

[perkeleellinen]

I shot my little Minox B throughout the summer of 2022 and made another slideshow like last year (here).

As before, this is Velvia 50, Gepe 35mm mounts masked for 8x11 and two synchronised Ektapro 9010 projectors.

I tried to learn from last year and I think Minox excels in close range whilst avoiding large areas of sky. I spent a lot of time cleaning my mounts this time to try and remove the debris which marred last years' slides. There's still some debris, but less and I'm happy with that. Edit to add that this is a consumer grade camcorder recording my projector screen and I cannot lock focus on that camera so it often goes out of focus and the softer looking images are the camcorder out of focus rather than me!

Disaster struck toward the end of the summer - a cartidge got stuck in the camera (I think this happens when the film is not square to the take up spool or it's cut too long and it swells the cartiridge in the chamber) and then a small piece of the meter fell out. I traded the camera for a Minox LX which I'm using now - excited by the possibility of auto mode.

Anyway, here's the slide show, I don't claim any artisitic merit here - it's mostly family snaps- just showing what is possible in 2023:

 

[Trask]

Hey, thanks for the slide show -- just the sound of the machine click-clacking brings back memories. Your photos are just what the Minox makes so easy: spontaneous snapshots. I've got several Minox C which also has automatic shutter timing; I think you'll enjoy letting the camera make your photographs even more spontaneous. Keep up the annual slide show!

 

[Bill Burk]

Thanks for the slide show! It felt like re-living a childhood.

 

[Patrick Robert James]

I enjoyed that!

I am a bit of a Minox nut.

You will probably like the Minox lens on the LX more than the Complan on the B. I own 6 Minoxxia at this point. The Complan lens is better for black and white. The LX will look great with the Velvia you are using. I don't shoot much color so my LX and EC sit on my desk. The LX is the best one. Such a fantastic camera, but I mostly use two Cs with the Complan lens. I don't use the B's much anymore unless I run out of 36 frame cassettes, then I put the 50 frame cassettes in a B and go to town with those.

You probably won't be able to use any of the older metal cassettes made for the B in the LX. The later snap cap ones are great but the felt in them can be sticky so you have to watch for that. That could be why your B jammed.

You can clean the film gate with a Post-It note. Stick it in the gate and cycle it, then flip it around and do it again. That eliminates almost always the little dust thingys that tend to follow the frame edges around. That drives me nuts! Keep on top of it and it won't have to come apart to get cleaned. You can do the same with the cassettes. Stick the Post-It in the felt to grab any dust.

My Instagram is chock full of Minox.

 

[perkeleellinen]

My Instagram is chock full of Minox.

Thanks, your IG is great, I don't know how I'd never found it, Instagram is terrible at searching.

Thanks also for the tips about cleaning. I had been focusing on the mounts but never considered the film gate.

I'm in the UK and MS Hobbies is my source for all things Minox. I've just got hold of some of their new metal cassettes and I'm hoping this year to master slitting film so I can be self-sufficient.

 

[guangong]

I always carry a Minox or two with me. The capability of the lenses in all models of Minox cameras, beginning with the III, is amazing. A III is so small it can get lost in your pocket. When these cameras were sold new they were very, very expensive. I can remember looking at them in a store window during my student days in the 1950s...way beyond my budget.

 

[Kino]

Fun slide show! That motivates me!

I have a Minox B set that I found cheap years ago and never have used due to a lack of cartridges and fresh film. Now that slitters and cartridges are easier to find, my interest has been rekindled.

It also helps that I found a Minomat N slide projector yesterday at a flea market.

While it's in great physical shape, of course the slide trays were separated from the system and I'll have to hunt for at least a couple to fully test the unit.

 

[Patrick Robert James]

Thanks, your IG is great, I don't know how I'd never found it, Instagram is terrible at searching.

Thanks also for the tips about cleaning. I had been focusing on the mounts but never considered the film gate.

I'm in the UK and MS Hobbies is my source for all things Minox. I've just got hold of some of their new metal cassettes and I'm hoping this year to master slitting film so I can be self-sufficient.

Thanks! Yeah, hard to find things on IG.

I didn't know about those metal cassettes. Pricey!

You probably already know about the slitters Jimmy Li makes. (https://www.instagram.com/minox_riga_user/) I am planning on buying one myself the next time I run out of film. I have a home made slitter right now but it is getting dull. I slit dozens of rolls at a time off of a bulk roll and put them in a bulk film can then reload out of that. I have a bunch of cassettes.

 

[perkeleellinen]

You probably already know about the slitters Jimmy Li makes. (https://www.instagram.com/minox_riga_user/) I am planning on buying one myself the next time I run out of film.

Let us know how you get on with it, they are on my radar. They're around 200 aren't they? APUG member @ic-racer has one.

 

[Patrick Robert James]

Let us know how you get on with it, they are on my radar. They're around 200 aren't they? APUG member @ic-racer has one.

I think they are around that. I only want one if I can pull the film through it. Twisting that knob would get real old real soon when you are slitting down 100" of film. The roller one is the one I want. Never have to sharpen it or replace the blades. Heaven. I need to contact Jimmy Li and ask him about it.