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Tessina at work
This is a Tessina 35 Automatic subminiature camera made in Switzerland mainly during the Cold war times. It is so small that there is actually an accessory for carrying it on a wrist like a watch, and there is also a Swiss Tessina watch that can be mounted on it. It is considered the smallest 35mm camera ever produced.
All of this earned it an epithet of a spy camera, and in fact that is what it was. It is reported that a Tessina was seized as evidence from one of the plumbers caught in the Watergate affair and it is well known that East German secret police Stazi used a special silent version of the camera in its operations. So as every other Swiss thing, Tessina was politicaly neutral - popular with both communist and capitalist secret agents.
In the light of this, I thought it quite appropriate to take a photo of Tessina focusing on the Russia's Vladimir Putin, once a KGB officer stationed in, then East German, city of Dresden where he worked closely with Stazi. ho knows, maybe he used one of Tessinas himself...
BTW, image is not photoshoped, that is Putin's face in the viewfinder. Guess how? :)
Tessina at work
This is a Tessina 35 Automatic subminiature camera made in Switzerland mainly during the Cold war times. It is so small that there is actually an accessory for carrying it on a wrist like a watch, and there is also a Swiss Tessina watch that can be mounted on it. It is considered the smallest 35mm camera ever produced.
All of this earned it an epithet of a spy camera, and in fact that is what it was. It is reported that a Tessina was seized as evidence from one of the plumbers caught in the Watergate affair and it is well known that East German secret police Stazi used a special silent version of the camera in its operations. So as every other Swiss thing, Tessina was politicaly neutral - popular with both communist and capitalist secret agents.
In the light of this, I thought it quite appropriate to take a photo of Tessina focusing on the Russia's Vladimir Putin, once a KGB officer stationed in, then East German, city of Dresden where he worked closely with Stazi. ho knows, maybe he used one of Tessinas himself...
BTW, image is not photoshoped, that is Putin's face in the viewfinder. Guess how? :)