1890 Spy Camera in Oslo

[Shibumi]

Just amazing!

http://thechive.com/2017/12/31/in-1...-some-amazing-secret-street-photos-36-photos/

 

[viclip]

Just amazing!

http://thechive.com/2017/12/31/in-1...-some-amazing-secret-street-photos-36-photos/

The secret photographer's candid camera gives us a rare glimpse into the lives of real people as they were well over a century ago ~ thanks for sharing

 

[Doctor Strange]

Very cool. A vanished world.

I've owned a number of Minox "spy cameras" since their heyday in the spy-craze sixties, and actually still have a roll of b/w film in this one:

People think miniaturization is a recent idea, but the Minox design dates to the 1930s! Its inventor didn't plan on making an espionage tool, he envisioned it as "a daily companion, like a fine watch"... a stylish accoutrement, if you will. (See what I did there?)

 

[seres]

I still have my Minox B, too. Film is still available for it, or you can make a slitter and roll your own. Great link... thanks for posting!

 

[Doctor Strange]

I've got both this III-s and a B. I used to shoot color in the B, but stopped when Minox Processing Labs went out of biz a decade or so ago. I develop the b/w myself (my parents were pros, I grew up working in a b/w studio.) I have been slitting 35mm and reloading the Minox cassettes myself for around twenty years.

That is, I did. I'm having a hard time justifying using the Minox these days, that last roll of film's been in the camera for a couple of years now. (But I still like to put some Tri-X through my Nikon F2 every now and then. The look of shooting with film and old lenses is still unique!)

 

[seres]

That's pretty much my experience, too. I haven't slit any film for almost a decade, because it's just easier to drop a 35mm cassette into my Nikon. Most of my work is digital now, but I still shoot and process a few rolls of TX every year. As you said, "The look of shooting with film and old lenses is still unique!".

 

[Just Jim]

Just amazing!

http://thechive.com/2017/12/31/in-1...-some-amazing-secret-street-photos-36-photos/

Amazing is the only word for it! Even though some of those pics seem as if the subjects were aware of the camera, there just aren't a lot of known street images of that era. Thanks for posting the link!