juan
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I’m reading a book about Soviet spies in the US back in the 30s. It refers to them using a Leica microfilm camera, but I can’t find any reference to such a camera then. Was there such a thing?
Up into the 50s 35mm cameras were called "miniature cameras". Likely that is the explanation.
Leitz made a 16mm camera for the CIC according to William White in Subminiature Photography - he says that "an example most certainly exists in a US army museum" and there seems to be a few more subminiatures that have been attributed to Leitz during war years although it seems evidence there is more uncertain.
They may have been involved in making the Zapp microfilm camera too from skim reading my copy of White's book
With those devoted Leica collectors investigating into each nut, there should have been spread knowledge about such still 16mm camera. I am also curious to learn about an involvement of Leitz in the VEF enterprise.
(Youg writes that Zapp wrote to Barnack, disclosing some of his design ideas, but never got a reply from Barnack or someone else at Leitz.)
I’m reading a book about Soviet spies in the US back in the 30s. It refers to them using a Leica microfilm camera, but I can’t find any reference to such a camera then. Was there such a thing?
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