500. Miniature Spy Camera

This unknown camera (the only specification is a small sticker „Nr. 5“ in the film cassette compartment) is 54 x 32 x 17mm in size and was milled from solid aluminium. It is black anodized, relatively heavy and superbly made. The lens is coated and fixed-focus, no diaphragm. No finder. Exposure counter to 36, not unlike a Minox counter, but different. Like in a Minox the pressure plate is lifted when the film is transported, which is done by pulling out a chrome plated lever from one of the small sides. It is hard to estimate the origin and vintage of this camera. Design and make are first-rate and cannot be compared with any amateur subminiature camera (while more simple in design with its simple shutter and missing viewfinder, its make is even superior to a late 8x12mm Minox). Soviet secret service cameras once were of comparable quality, but never used Phillips screws (which are used here exclusively) and at least had some sort of serial number engraved, while this camera lacks any designation. There is also no resemblance to one of the many subminiature cameras from the USSR and the GDR that we have seen. So we suspect that the camera might possibly be of western origin and made for one of the Western Secret Services, and possibly even shortly after the end of the cold war.

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