Spying on c4di

I need to clean the film a bit

I took this picture up town today using a Minox B “spy” camera. Considering that the film had been sliced down to 9mm wide, rolled into a Minox cassette (twice because the first time didn’t work) and then unrolled and processed, it hasn’t come out too badly.

If you are ever lucky enough to get one of these to play with (they are great fun) make sure that you set the frame counter to zero before you load the film. The camera has a very clever mechanism that changes the amount the film winds on as the number of pictures increases. This compensates for the change in thickness of the take-up spool as more film is wound on. However, if you set this wrong (like I did) you end up with a bunch of overlapping frames (where the camera didn’t wind on as much as it thought it needed too) followed by a bunch of “spaced out” frames. Worth knowing for next time…