European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 17, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                By Max Hill Weir staff writer late last year a Chicago photographer smuggled a tiny camera into the observers Cage outside the death chamber where one James Morelli was to die in the electric the camera was in the photographers shoe and escaped detection by the x Ray the jailers used to search the execution removing the camera from the the photographer made a picture through the cages Glass that picture of the doomed criminal in the chair shocked those who saw it in the Chicago daily As Well As the blushing jailers with the x the camera used was the the european Exchange system is displaying the minor on photo shelves for the minor is advertised As the worlds smallest High precision and yes is Selling it for stateside quotations on the midget Are plus Federal lax with used models going for about the list Price in German shops is 375 the Chicago treatment is on the sensational but in line with a common attitude toward the which some what disappoints the the fac tory operating in a very modern Plant near deplores the Label spy Amateur photographers readily note the spy possibilities of so Small a camera and Are intrigued by americans who saw the cameras for the first time in the closing Days of the War were eager to claim them As prize bits of and since the postwar models have appeared in German photographic Many new Subminiature fans have Duke on his recent tour of the became a fan and wanted to Purchase High commissioner John Mccloy has a he has had Good press from news shots made of him using his minor at the London foreign ministers during the the late Hermann Goering Quick to requisition a couple of thousand minor cameras from the he gave them to Luftwaffe officers As since the officers could not accept gifts from the they were per to make Token payments of about 50 Marks to Goering so they could comply with the regulations and be Able to Call the cameras their weighing Only about ounces or about the same As packs of chewing the Bright Metal has a cubic measurement just a Little greater than two packs of within its Dimen Sions about Are 183 parts with tolerances finer than those for an expensive the most Gen Erous tolerance is of an to achieve that precision the operations in making the Are augmented by 412 Check ing on the different dimensions of the component so Small a camera will take a Small the minor has a negative size of 11 by 8 my on a strip of film 30 inches with so exposures on one there Are limitations that skilled amateurs will be Able to overcome by experimentation and the less skilled will be Able to by accepting operating guides for what they Are negative size is the most formidable measures recommended for nullifying this include steadier picture Fine Grain film and Fin Grain development of the More exact focusing in the taking and enlarging add up to better results Small As the negative magnifications above 35x have been made with no objectionable Grain in prints made on Matte photo graphic the minor has a focal length complain Lens which gives a relatively great depth of the aperture is fixed so depth of Field is also Static two packages chewing gum placed together Are a Little smaller in two dimensions than a minor at Bottom right is a Contact print of the above picture in actual size As taken by the five element complain the minor with its dials is at Walter Zabb below inspects the first which he invented in Estonia in and a bit of whittled Wood he used As a spy camera Contact print is seen at this cutaway photo left indicates some of the watch like precision of the minor shutter and film moving a Contact print of the for particular when focused at the nearest 8 there is a d of f Between to based on Circle of confusion of at 3 the d of f is from to 45vs when set at the d of f is from feet to the camera can be focused for distances of 12 and 18 2 feet and the Lens is a coated Between Helens split shutter with exposure times of bulb and instantaneous of Vado and Arooth Sec the minor viewfinder is cast from plexiglass with a Frame marking the exact Field of View in much the same Way As an optical the finder is coupled to the focusing mechanism and correction for Parallax is two filters Are built into the camera and can be pushed into place by the Fingernail engaging a Nurl in the Slid ing the film is enclosed in a Daylight loading cassette after May be developed in a special minor tank in room Ansco and a Pacolor Are not yet supplied by the film companies in the proper but a Pacolor and Ansco color in 35mm sizes can be Cut to the size and loaded in these two films can be developed in a number of processing plants in operation of the camera is in closed the Lens is covered from the shutter Springs the film is already advanced to an unexposed by pulling on both ends of the rectangular the Lens is the viewfinder the and All the operator has to do is to set the focusing choose the shutter and press the release closing the camera advances the Walter Zapp now residing in Giessen was an unemployed photographer in when he invented the first it was initially produced in and production continued there until late in the military government was interested that minor production be initiated in Ger Many to earn Dollar and Zapp busied himself in Wetzlar redesigning and lightening the Riga with the present production of 700 cameras per month Likely to double in a Zapp has turned to designing accessories to go with the a special minor enlarger will prove valuable to minor just As the Daylight developing tank has taken Many mishaps out o development a special tripod head help with time and in the Futura there May be telephoto lenses and internal feature Section