The Ernemann Minor Falling Plate is an early plate camera made by the German manufacturer Ernemann, designed to take glass dry plates loaded into a falling-plate magazine that advanced exposed plates to the bottom of the camera between shots. It dates from the late-19th to early-20th-century period of hand-cameras, when falling-plate designs were a common alternative to roll-film boxes for amateur photographers.

With only one tracked UK auction result, the Minor Falling Plate sells for around £110 at saleroom level, a hammer price that today reflects its position as a collector item rather than a user camera. Values for this model in 2026 are driven primarily by cosmetic condition and completeness of the plate magazine, so the price a given example is worth can shift sharply with shutter function and case originality.