Acmel M by Spytec

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In the eighties, MicoTec Industries at San Diago CA was quite active in subminiature photography business, selling Minox/ACMEL camera, respooled 8x11mm film with mailer and sold under Spytec brand name.  MicroTec sold sleeves for Minox 8x11 negatives and distribute ACMEL film cutter under MicroTec name. Sold modified Minox EC with IR flash as a spy camera. MicroTec went out of business due to not enough subminiature users.

Seth Moore is a subminiature collector, he owned many rare coloured Tessina spy cameras. For a short period of time, Seth Moore participated in Submini-list, and sold his stock of Minox accessories using jb007 email address (James Bond 007); some times Seth sold ACMEL cassettes at eBay. By now probably great part of his stock were gone. It is said that Seth Moore moved to Fairborn Ohio near Wright Patterson Air Base, doing work for the US government

 

Model	Minimax Spytec
Serial #	none
Finish/colour	black
Lens	13.5mm f8 fixed focus 0.75m to infinity
Shutter	1/150th sec.
Case	black purse with slip in fastener
Box
Instructions
Purchased	2003/01/31
Date of Manufacture	1981
Cost	70USD
Current Value
Auction Price	Ebay  *2003/01/31 70USD, 2003/08/22 126.50USD Spytec b/w film 2008/11/25 5.50EUR
Dimension	68 x 26 x 20 mm
Weight	38grams
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