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Tim the Grey said:
Leics III digital. in 1/3 scale!> > They are VERY cute, and I guess as Minox make them, and are allowed> to use classic brand names, they cannot perform THAT badly?
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They are not digital, they use a tiny 8x11mm toy film. And you can be sure they will indeed perform THAT badly, they are Minoxes after all. Real Minoxes are far from flash in the performance department, and these "classics" will be nothing more than elegantly styled junk for sale to wealthy fools. I would even withdraw the word elegant as they are in fact a travesty of the real thing. A good copy is fair flattery, a bad copy deserves contempt.It would not surprise me if they even look bad on close inspection. They will certainly look stupid.
 
Unless you were inflicted with a Minox. Their format was smaller than most. Much more typical was 16mm, like the Steky, a far superior camera for about a quarter the price of a Minox. Their pictures were about twice the size - 11x14mm (?)!.
David Hughes said:
Think that (8mm x 11mm) was what my first compact used many years
ago. Sigh.
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Two of the Minox Classics (the M3s) are digital, but they don't have a LCD screen, no memory card and just 32 MB of internal memory, fixed focus lens. So they may or may not make good pictures, but they are definitely toys to me, something one would buy if one already has a nice modern P&S, some money left and no better way to spend it ;-)

Bye, Silvio
 
nickoly said:
Tim the Grey said:
Leics III digital. in 1/3 scale!

They are VERY cute, and I guess as Minox make them, and are allowed
to use classic brand names, they cannot perform THAT badly?
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They are not digital, they use a tiny 8x11mm toy film.
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Some are film, some are digital:

http://www.minox.de/minox2002/pages/templates_standard/eine_seite.phtml?&send_xx_mi=S%23produkte%23classic_cameras%23classic_cameras%23classic_dcc_lm321%24nav_classic_kameras

http://www.minox.de/minox2002/pages/templates_standard/eine_seite.phtml?&send_xx_mi=S%23produkte%23classic_cameras%23classic_cameras%23classic_m3%24nav_classic_kameras

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I got one of those recently. I read the Luminous Landscape article about the funkycam:

http://luminous-landscape.com/essays/funkeycam.shtml

and since I always wanted a digital version of the lomo I set out to find a small digicam that takes horrid pictures. The Rollei is perfect. It takes sd cards, so I can put a decent size card in and shoot forever, plus I don't have to use proprietary software like with the funkycam. It has an LCD (albiet a terrible one) so that I can delete pics in camera. The image quality is super low res, and bad enough that it looks artistic. Plus you have to crank it to take a picture, which is awesome. It's terrible as a regular camera, but as a toy camera it has everything I could ask for.
omr said:
Barrie Marshall said:
I loved my Mamiya - Rollei - Yashica and Micrcord Twin Lens
Reflexes, how about a digital version!
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http://www.rollei.jp/e/pd/MiniD.html

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00027LCJE/

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Found this thread through a google on TLR digital camera and had to comment on the below post.
dustin said:
I got one of those recently. I read the Luminous Landscape article
about the funkycam:

http://luminous-landscape.com/essays/funkeycam.shtml

and since I always wanted a digital version of the lomo I set out
to find a small digicam that takes horrid pictures .
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That's funny!
dustin216185 said:
The Rollei is
perfect. It takes sd cards, so I can put a decent size card in and
shoot forever, plus I don't have to use proprietary software like
with the funkycam. It has an LCD (albiet a terrible one) so that I
can delete pics in camera. The image quality is super low res, and
bad enough that it looks artistic. Plus you have to crank it to
take a picture, which is awesome. It's terrible as a regular
camera, but as a toy camera it has everything I could ask for.
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Knowing it was a toy, I was half considering buying one if I could find it used for less than $100, but now I think the price limit just went down.

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Your mileage may vary.

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