Small Minox Big Pictures

• THE MINOX OVER THE YEARS (quite brief and superficial if compared with Morris Moses' book).

• THE SKELETON IN THE CUPBOARD (comments and warnings about bad images may be caused by minimal dirt - dust, fingerprints - on the lens).

• CHOOSING THE FILM
  • Black-and-white negative films
  • Color reversal (color transparency) films
  • Color negative films

• THE MINOX ABC
  • Opening and film transport
  • The scales
  • The shutter and automatic exposure control
    • The electronic shutter
    • The CdS photoresistor
    • Faultless exposure
    • The slower shutter speeds/warning light
    • Very short exposures - ncutral filters
    • Non-automatic shutter speed setting
    • The battery
    • MINOX C: Setting the film speed
    • MINOX B: Setting the film speed
    • Exposure measurement with the MINOX B
  • How to hold the MINOX
  • The lens
    • The focal length / Focusing
    • Depth of field
    • Light transmission
    • Lens coating
  • The viewfinder
  • Filters
    • Filters for all types of film
    • Filters for black-and-white film
    • Filters for color reversal (slide) film
  • The lens hood / Exposure counter
  • Changing the film
    • Changing films in the MINOX C
    • Changing a partly exposed film
    • Cutting a partly exposed film
    • MINOX IIIS and B : Changing the film
  • Case and chain
  • Care of the MINOX
  • Minox cameras in black Finish

• FILM -- Film speed
  • Grain
  • Sharpness
  • Gradation
  • The tropics in the glove compartment

• IMPORTANT FOR BETTER PICTURES
  • Get close to the subject
  • Keep the background simple
  • Light and shade, not color, is the essence of the black-and-white picture
  • Choose the best format
  • Don't be satisfied with just one picture

• WHAT TO PHOTOGRAPH - AND HOW?
  • People
  • Landscapes
  • Architecture
  • Flowers and plants
  • Fast moving objects
  • Color transparencies
  • Color prints

• ACCESSORIES AND THEIR USE
  • Flash equipment
    • The Minox cube flasher
    • The range of flash cubes
    • Some flash tips
    • The Minox ME 1 electronic flash unit
  • Supplementary filters
  • Using a tripod
    • Tripod head
    • Pocket tripod
  • Candid photography
    • Right-angle finder mirror
  • Distant subjects - photographed in close-up
    • Binocular attachment

• MICROFILMS - MADE WITH THE MINOX
  • Rapid copying
  • Equipment
    • Copying stand
    • Copying attachment
  • The film
    • Document film Agfa Agepe FF
  • Lighting
  • Exposure
  • Copying with flash
  • Filing
    • Document film sleeve
  • Reading devices
    • MD Reader
  • Developing document films

• PROJECTION
  • How big can one project?
  • The Minomat N automatic projector
  • The semi-automatic Minotact
  • Projector case and table projection
  • The projection screen
  • The correct mounting of slides
    • Transparency cutter
  • Slide magazines and slide files

• HOME PROCESSING AND ENLARGING
  • Film developing
  • The daylight developing tank
  • Special ultra-fine grain developer
  • Development time and temperature
  • The fixing bath
  • Wetting agent
  • Drying
  • Two-bath development
  • Developing document ñlm
  • Storing films
    • Film sleeves
    • Film viewer magnifier
  • Enlarging
    • The Minox enlarger
    • The paper
    • Dust
    • Scratches
    • Shading or Dodging

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