10 Years Ago this Month - From the Security Scrapbook

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Four Cool Spy Cameras for Sale

Vintage Cameras & Lenses | Coeln Cameras

I am very glad to offer my 30 years of experience with vintage cameras to provide my knowledge in the field for valuations and appraisals. Whether you are looking for advice regarding sale or would like to receive an appraisal for a single camera or an entire collection, I am happy to provide my expertise to you.
Yours,
Peter Coeln

Rare watch camera with yellow wrist-strap, Steineck 2.5/12.5mm lens, in very fine and working condition, matching original presentation case, red maker's box, instructions, warranty card - very hard to find so complete.
Steineck 

A.-B.-C Watch Camera
Condition: B+
Year: c.1949

$2,878.21

Small all-metal box camera for 12 exposures on special cassettes, with cloth focal plane shutter - in near mint condition. With film, leather case and original box.
Expo Camera Co., NY
Police Camera
Condition: A/B
Year: c.1920
$1,067.34

6x6mm images on 8mm perforated film for 20 exposures, diamond pattern gold finish, fixed focus lens, 2-speed shutter for instant and bulb exposure, engraved 'OTV' (Osaka Television), in balsa wood box with orig. maker's printed instruction leaflet, film rolls, case. The extremely rare camera was never sold to public, it was a special present for the first Anniversary of Osaka Television.
Suzuki Optical Co.
Camera-Lite B Gold
Condition: B
Year: 1955
$2,878.21

The Watch Camera was manufactured by J. Lancaster & Son of Birmingham, from 1886 to 1900. It was patented on October 4th, 1886, patent no. 12571. It was constructed of engine turned metal with nickel plating. Designed to look like a pocket watch and easily carried in a waistcoat pocket. It was a self erecting camera which expanded six spring-loaded telescoping tubes when opened to form the bellows of the camera. It featured an internal meniscus lens. The offered camera is the later model with drop shutter. Men's model for 1 1/2x2' plates, with original filmholder, the extremely rare camera is in fine original condition.
Lancaster 
Watch Camera Men's Model
Condition: B
Year: 1890
$26,383.61

FutureWatch: Yet Another World's Smallest Camera

Micro-sized cameras have great potential to spot problems in the human body and enable sensing for super-small robots, but past approaches captured fuzzy, distorted images with limited fields of view.

Now, researchers at Princeton University and the University of Washington have overcome these obstacles with an ultracompact camera the size of a coarse grain of salt. The new system can produce crisp, full-color images on par with a conventional compound camera lens 500,000 times larger in volume, the researchers reported in a paper published Nov. 29 in Nature Communications... 

Heide (Felix Heide, the study's senior author and an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton) and his colleagues are now working to add more computational abilities to the camera itself. Beyond optimizing image quality, they would like to add capabilities for object detection and other sensing modalities relevant for medicine and robotics.

Heide also envisions using ultracompact imagers to create "surfaces as sensors." "We could turn individual surfaces into cameras that have ultra-high resolution, so you wouldn't need three cameras on the back of your phone anymore, but the whole back of your phone would become one giant camera. We can think of completely different ways to build devices in the future," he said. more

PI & Security Director Alert - Camera Smartband for Apple Watch

A dream for professional investigators.
A nightmare for security directors.
The Apple watch band wristcam!

The scoop...
• Apple MFi-Certified Modular Camera Smartband for Apple Watch,
• 42mm-44mm, Black,
• TWO CAMERAS: 8MP + 2MP, 4K Photo, 1080p Video,
• 2 Microphones (underwater support for water adventures)
• 8GB Storage, WiFi, Bluetooth 5,
• IP68 Water Resistant

"Now you can go without your phone, and use your Apple Watch to capture 4K photo, 1080p video, and even video live chat with the Wristcam App." more

Facebook "Bug" Bugged iPhone Camera - Bugged Instagram'er Sues

Facebook has got itself in trouble again as the California-based tech giant has been allegedly sued for spying on Instagram users using the camera on the phone, Bloomberg reported.

According to the lawsuit, which has come following reports from July, the photo-sharing application had been accessing the camera on the iPhone to spy on users even when they weren’t activated.

Facebook has denied the claim and blamed a bug saying that it’s correcting the problem. more