Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/27

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Subject: [Leica] OT Minox bad news
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Sat May 27 16:57:11 2006
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I didn't know that, thanks Marc.
obviously it's not such a catastrophe as the magazine makes out.
Douglas

Marc James Small wrote:

>At 01:39 AM 5/28/06 +0200, Douglas Sharp wrote:
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>>Local photo press here in Germany have announced that the company 
>>producing films for Minox sub-miniature cameras is closing down after 46 
>>years in the business.
>>Strangely enough the article also reports that a company providing Minox 
>>submin processing will carry on operating - how if there's no film any 
>>more?
>>    
>>
>
>Douglas
>
>Film splitters are readily available on the market and are quite easy to
>build, and many Minox users have been making their own film loads for
>decades.  For the first decade of the breed, I believe that this was the
>only way to have film for your camera.
>
>Marc
>
>msmall@aya.yale.edu 
>Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!
>
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