MINI CAMERA MINOX 35GL 1970s GERMANY with flash, instructions and original box. GL (1979–1981) Minox is a company that produces cameras and binoculars, famous for the miniature camera of the same name, also known as a "spy camera", designed in 1922 and created in 1936 by Walter Zapp (1905 - 2003).[1] The Minox camera, manufactured in Riga, Latvia, from 1937 to 1943, after World War II, from 1948, was produced in Germany. In the seventies the manufacturer also adopted the 110 and 135 formats. The production of photographic and optical equipment still continues today. It is one of the few cameras immortalized together with James Bond, who used a Minox AIIIs in "Agent 007: On Her Majesty's Secret Service".