KGB Mikro-Spionagekamera

for Minox film, an unbelievably well made example of a clandestine camera for one of the eastern secret services, probably the KGB. The camera has a body milled from solid metal to extremely fine tolerances and uses a coated six-element double Gaussian wide angle lens with 65 degrees of view. Single-speed (about 1/90) focal-plane shutter of all metal design. The film is transported and the shutter cocked by sliding a chrome plated tab on the top of the camera. Originally a 115cm thinbase polyester film strip in two different cassettes was used for about a hundred pinpoint sharp images 8x9 mm. No finder. Focus fixed at infinity, large depth-of-field. Only very few of these cameras have been located, all serial numbers are very close. It comes with the orig. leather case, plastic box