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Camera Smaller Than a Cigarette Lighter Captures Secrets
A prewar Latvia made miniature camera, about the size of a cigarette lighter, could take fifty ultra tiny exposures at distances from eight inches to infinity. It uses two filters and speeds from one thousandth to half a second, with near silent triggering. Originating in Riga and later produced in Germany, the device found its way to Canada and the United States after World War II.
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Audrey Hepburn
Rome
Gregory Peck
R. J. Minney
Ray Milland
Riga
Latvia
Russia
Germany
Poland
Hitler
Wetzlar
U.S
Canada
United States