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-- Walter Zapp
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ESTONIAN POSTAGE COMMEMORATIVE STAMP AND FOLDER
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Issued in 1994, Estonia honored Walter Zapp and the Riga by including them in a series of stamps based on prominent patents. Minox, recognizing the significance of the stamp, created a folder to protect it and add some documentation. This was included with some special production cameras, used as a promotional giveaway, and sold through retail channels. |
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The smallest production camera in the world has been made in Germany since 1945, the MINIOX. The MINOX 8x11 format and the tiny camera have set the standard for sub miniature photography amongst professionals and amateurs. The new MINOX TLX consists of 275 hand assembled parts in a high value metal alloy casing with an especially robust surface - anodized titanium - a masterpiece of precision engineering and optoelectronics. The 35 mm model series from MINOX has also applied the principle of miniaturization to the cornact picture format. The photoelectronic innovations found in the MINOX nowadays have now become a symbol for quality workmanship - "made in Germany". |
Walter Zapp (born In 1905 in Riga, Latvia) already had the idea for his later subminiature camera when he was an apprentice from 1922-24 in Reval, now Tallinn (Estonia). He also developed the prototype here. The entirely new camera first went into production with the VEF company in Riga and was then produced by MINOX GmbH in Wetzlar after 1945. MINOX cameras from Heuchelheim near Giessen can be found all over the world since 1948. The Republic of Estonia has honoured Walter Zapp's invention by issuing a special postage stamp for Europe which reminds us of the patent registration of the original MINOX in Estonia. |
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