CAMERAS USING THE MINOX CASSETTE

If imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, Minox has a lot to be proud of.  Minox got the ball rolling, but many others have tried to improve on the original design.   

But these cameras get kind of confusing.  Why?  First, because some of these cameras were made by one company but were sold under other names.  Also, several of these cameras are exactly the same but appear with different names.  Sometimes these cameras have the exact same name, but different features.  Hopefully these pages will straighten some of this out.

If you are able to provide more accurate information than is listed here, please contact us.  

There are other cameras that use film that is approximately the same size as Minox film but not quite -- these are listed in either the DISC (8.2x10.6mm) or the miscellaneous submini film formats category.

• Acmel

  See Asanuma and Minox

• Asanuma cameras

• Cam Watch M-1

  See Chadt

• Chadt cameras

• Cosmo-Omega

  See Nikoh

• Doryu

  Although one model of Doryu cameras used 9.5mm film, it did not use a Minox-type cassette, as William White suggested in his book on submini cameras.  It only took half-a-dozen pictures on a tiny roll of film, and is covered in the MISCELLANEOUS FILM FORMAT section.

• Enica

  See Nikoh

• Fotal

  See 16mm cameras.

• Fuji cameras

• KGB cameras

• Megahouse

  See Sharan

• Micron

  See Nikoh

• Minimax

  See Nikoh

• Minox cameras

• Nikoh cameras

• Nova

  See Nikoh

• P950

  See Chadt

• Photo-Porst

  See Yashica

• Photolite

  See Nikoh

• Porst

  See Yashica

• Revue cameras

• SC5000

  Yet another cigarette lighter and camera that used Minox cassettes.  Listed as having an aperture of f5.6 and a single shutter speed of 1/100.

• SCAT

  A small and simple European submini from Italy.  It was made by Società Costruzioni Articoli Tecnici around 1950.  Different sources claim different film specifications on this camera.  Some state that it used 16mm film, some Minox cassettes.  It is possible that two or even three models were made.  It is not clear if any models actually used the Minox cassette.

• Seitz Roundshot

  (1987) From a big family of similarly-named, panorama cameras (of numerous formats) comes one that used Minox cassettes.  Like a few other panoramic cameras, this model does the rotating -- instead of the lens. It has a 10mm, fixed-focus, f16 optic, and a tripod socket on the bottom.

• Sharan cameras

• Slimax Lite

  A cigarette lighter and camera that used Minox cassettes

• Supra

  See Nikoh

• Xylish

  It's the same as the Minox MX, but with very Xylish-colored controls.

• Vicam

  See Chadt

• Yashica cameras

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