What camera used roughly 8×18mm negatives with three frames per strip in the late 1930s/early 1940s?
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I found what seem to be contact prints made from very small negatives. Each frame is about 8×18mm, and the film appears in short strips of three images. The prints were inside a processing envelope dated 1941, so this is not modern 110 film. What type of camera or film format would most likely have produced negatives of that size?
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Submintiature/16mm cameras like Minox Riga/A/B/C or Whittaker Micro 16 have negatives about that size.
The minox are often seen in movies and sold as "spy cameras" from that timeframe. The Riga model was introduced in 1938.
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Negatives around 8×18mm from that period most likely came from a subminiature camera using 16mm film, especially a Minox-type camera. Early Minox models, such as the Minox Riga introduced in 1938 and later A/B/C variants, produced very small negatives in roughly that size range and are a strong match for a 1941 date. Similar cameras, such as the Whittaker Micro 16, also used very small 16mm-based formats.
So the most likely answer is a late-1930s/early-1940s subminiature “spy camera” rather than 110 film.
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