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Why nobody's talking about Minox? May I not got the question right?
Minox 35GT compact camera
The main reason I got it was I read the test report in one of the photographic magazines, who had to test the lense three times, because the results were so good they didn't believe them,if you could find a second hand one of these, they aren't made any more, for you're wife, and you could borrow it to make exhibition prints with it,if you could get her to part with it.
Hi. Marco, I have just read the question, and I would be very pleased to talk about Minox, I have used a Minox 35 GT for more than twenty years, and though it has no range finder, this is no problem,the lens is a 35mm f2.8 optic this means that you can set the focus at about 3meters, and point and shoot, it's aperture priority exposure system gives you control of the depth of field which not many compact cameras do.Marco Gilardetti said:
The main reason I got it was I read the test report in one of the photographic magazines, who had to test the lense three times, because the results were so good they didn't believe them,if you could find a second hand one of these, they aren't made any more, for you're wife, and you could borrow it to make exhibition prints with it,if you could get her to part with it.
My apologies go to the Minox-lovers but I was nothing but disappointed by the lens as well as the camera.
I had a Minox 35MB and gave a 35AL to my girlfriend. The MB saw the workshop twice within 2 years, the AL stopped working after 2 years of little use and was never repaired because it wasn't worth it in my girflriends view. The lenses were ok but nothing to write home about (lots of flare, otherwise close to amateur-level prime lenses). Besides the flare issue I always thought it was fine and used it a lot untill I got myself a Rollei 35se with 40mm Sonnar. The difference in rendition of fine detail and color was astonishing as was the Rolleis resistance to flare. In my limited experience there is simply no contest between both lenses and the Minox 35 *way* overrated.
I had a Minox 35MB and gave a 35AL to my girlfriend. The MB saw the workshop twice within 2 years, the AL stopped working after 2 years of little use and was never repaired because it wasn't worth it in my girflriends view. The lenses were ok but nothing to write home about (lots of flare, otherwise close to amateur-level prime lenses). Besides the flare issue I always thought it was fine and used it a lot untill I got myself a Rollei 35se with 40mm Sonnar. The difference in rendition of fine detail and color was astonishing as was the Rolleis resistance to flare. In my limited experience there is simply no contest between both lenses and the Minox 35 *way* overrated.
Actually, with the right film and good technique you can get better pictures from a Minox 8x11 "spy" camera than from a Minox 35...
My 35mm Minox GTE has a really sharp of a lens on it, but unfortunetly I dropped the dang thing and now it's really not worth repairing.
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