The Minimum Palmos is an early folding plate camera carrying the Carl Zeiss Jena name, built around the Palmos focal-plane shutter design from the early 20th century. It was a compact-format hand camera aimed at the keen amateur and press user of its era.

With only a single tracked UK auction result, the Minimum Palmos has limited public price evidence: a Christie's hammer of £72 in 2006 is the lone reference point at saleroom level, and that figure is wholesale rather than a retail or dealer asking price. In today's market the value of any given example sells for whatever condition, completeness and shutter function will support, so a working camera with original lens and bellows is worth materially more than a project body.