Registry and Fan Page

A warm welcome to the yet tiny VEF Minox Riga Fan page. I started falling in love with this little camera and want to share the joy with others fans around the world! Everyone can contribute. I will start with putting up a list of all the surviving Minox cameras I recorded. Our Fan page may grow very slowly as I only have 5min here and there and the outline, content and design of our fan page may appear like a giant puzzle (with incomplete material not sorted properly). Hope you dont mind :-) better than nothing I always say. Enjoy!  

***VEF Minox Survivors List***

(Latest: No.02445, and 09118 on 14/05/2012)

(New since 1^st Jan 2012: --040--)

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Newly available:
for sale (27/04/2012)
Japanese Camera Review (21/03/2012)
Vintage WW2 VEF Minox negatives - Film B (18/03/2012)

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Cameras/items for sale

VEF Minox Camera, Accessories, &  Darkroom

(Latest: Optical & Technical Variations 09/06/2011)

Vintage Minox Negatives

(Latest: Tour of duty 18/03/2012)

User manuals: Minox, Development tank, & Enlarger

(Latest: The german camera manual 19/06/2011)

The Promotional Flyer and Manual, & Camera reviews

(Latest: The Turning Point 19/06/2011)

History: Minox production & Manufacturing pictures

(Latest: Production Pictures 26/05/2011)

Russian Minox & Swastika Minox

(Latest: Analysis of surviving cameras 01/08/2011)

Minox in Latvia , Switzerland , Sweden , Finland , England, USA , & Japan

(Latest: Japanese camera review on 21/03/2012)

Its use in Intelligence community

(Latest: The buy-back program on 28/03/2011)

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Minox Riga Picture Gallery

(Latest: Flickr gallery added 20/08/2011)

 Practical tips:

Practical tips for the Camera User

Books for Minox Fans

Other interesting facts:

  Minox profiles  & unusual Minox modifications

(Latest:Camera 13309 by MinoxMuseum.nl 09/06/2011)

VEF Minox vs. Minox B (here), vs. Minox LX (here)

(For the first link, You need to scroll down 2/3 of the page [in japanese])

Original or not? (see here)

Is Dating a VEF Minox camera impossible?

(Latest: USSR cameras 18/08/2011)

Other good sources out there are:

Submin

(Huge private collection, the No.1 internet sub-miniature camera reference website)

MinoxDoc

(Huge private collection, many interesting pictures & stories)

Minox Collections open to the public:

Minox Museum (NL,Europe)

(Massive private collection of museum quality, and as far as I know the only true Minox Museum?)

Worth a visit [photo (c)Minoxmuseum.nl]

VEF Minox Riga Repair:

DAGCamera

(Master craftsman since eons, he repaired 100s of Rigas over the years)

I count at least 28 Rigas on this single bench in his repair shop [photo (c)Don Goldberg]

VEF Minox Replica leather cases:

Luigi's Quality Camera Purses 

Maybe even better made than the original, and fits better too  [photo (c)Leicatime.com]

My Minox collection

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