Talk:Minox

message: The "current" versions of the Minox (that is, those made over the last 50 years or so) with Complan and Minox lenses, do not have a curved film plane. The film is held flat.
I'm not going to alter this at this time, because it would require more than a minor edit. This page is pretty much a stub, anyway, and needs a comprehensive revision/enhancement by a Minox expert.
WilliamSommerwerck 19:25, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: The article immediately starts off into history, hardly even explaining what the subject is. TheOtherSiguy 16:24, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs a better introduction. 

message: The Minox camera was made before there was a Minox company. This article combines both subjects. When time (after mid-2008) and interest permits, I will split it into two parts, one for the cameras derived from Zapp's original designs and one for the German company which formed after the war to produce it again. KarlWK (talk) 05:40, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split this Article? 

message: The MiniDigi isn't a Minox product as far as I can tell - it's actually produced and marketed by Rollei in Japan, and Minox merely remarketed it in Europe. Rollei offer red and black versions and have just announced a new 5.0Mp version (3.2Mp sensor, square), Minox offered the red as a premium "Limited Edition" through Lufthansa. The DCC M3 does appear to be a Minox product, though it's vastly inferior to their miniature film cameras and is crudely "developed" from an off the shelf reference design.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.148.189.133 (talk) 15:15, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rollei MiniDigi 

message: it might be worth adding to "Office of Strategic Services" reference that it is (was) an "United States intelligence agency" - i had to click around to figure that out
I strongly disagree. The articles refers to it as the US Office of Strategic Services, and said reference is immediately preceded by the sentence, It also attracted the attention of intelligence agencies in America, Britain and Germany, due to its small size and macro focusing ability.
I submit that you did not need to click around to figure that out, you needed only to pay closer attention.--Patronanejo (talk) 23:11, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  what's "Office of Strategic Services" 

message: In the Spy Camera section, there is a sentence which I do not find to be self-explanatory...
:An 18-inch (460 mm) measuring chain was provided with most Minox cameras, which enabled easy copying of letter-sized documents.
...does not suggest how such an item might be used, or how it might ease the duplication of printed documents.
I realise of course that a chain can be easily compacted, requiring only gravity to reach full extension. I can only imagine that eighteen inches is the nearest focal distance at which the area of A4 paper is fully within frame? I'm not asking for a diagram, just a cursory explanation of the significance of that distance.--Patronanejo (talk) 22:46, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Document duplication 

message: A disambiguation section is needed to disambiguate "Complan".
The article discusses the "Complan Lens", but incorrectly links to the Wikipedia entry for the British food company Complan.
I do not know if this company was once involved in making camera lenses.
Alpine Joy (talk) 10:10, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation Needed for Complan (Lens) 

message: Added this article to :Category:Estonian inventions and :Category:Latvian inventions, as the prototype was forged in Estonia in collaboration with people from both Estonia and Latvia. Per this article, the serial manufacture of the device took place in Latvia. -Mardus /talk 14:32, 19 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categories 

message: Can anyone supply what the original selling prices were?  It would be interesting to see what it cost to be a spy :-)  BMJ-pdx (talk) 04:41, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prices?