Memory lane
Dec 5, 2020 14:44:44 #
Way back in my callow youth I bought a half frame camera but cannot recall the maker. Which companies made such a thing?
Dec 5, 2020 14:46:08 #
cudakite wrote:
Way back in my callow youth I bought a half frame camera but cannot recall the maker. Which companies made such a thing?
Olympus made a good line of half frame cameras called the Pen (they currently have the Pen line too but they are digital).
Dec 5, 2020 14:54:46 #
cudakite wrote:
Way back in my callow youth I bought a half frame camera but cannot recall the maker. Which companies made such a thing?
Anything here ring a bell?
https://www.google.com/search?q=half+frame+film+cameras&rlz=1C1SQJL_enUS873US873&oq=half+frame+film+cameras&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i22i30l3.12079j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Dec 5, 2020 15:22:23 #
cudakite wrote:
Way back in my callow youth I bought a half frame camera but cannot recall the maker. Which companies made such a thing?
I had a lot of fun back in the day with this Bell & Howell Dial 35 half frame. The knob at the bottom was a windup auto film advance. It was actually made by Canon, but they had a deal to brand some of them as Bell & Howell.
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Dec 5, 2020 23:05:06 #
Forgive my naïveté. I never heard of this format of a camera. It looks very interesting but very limiting.
Dec 5, 2020 23:40:28 #
Scruples wrote:
Forgive my naïveté. I never heard of this format of a camera. It looks very interesting but very limiting.
The crop sensor of the time. You got 72 shots from a 36 exposure roll.
Dec 6, 2020 00:16:54 #
Scruples wrote:
Forgive my naïveté. I never heard of this format of a camera. It looks very interesting but very limiting.
Olympus called it 35mm single frame not half frame as you can see in this ads in 1966
https://www.amazon.com/Vintage-Magazine-Electronics-Advertisement-Olympus/dp/B015JMCR8G
Dec 6, 2020 01:28:58 #
BebuLamar wrote:
Olympus called it 35mm single frame not half frame as you can see in this ads in 1966
https://www.amazon.com/Vintage-Magazine-Electronics-Advertisement-Olympus/dp/B015JMCR8G
https://www.amazon.com/Vintage-Magazine-Electronics-Advertisement-Olympus/dp/B015JMCR8G
Probably a reference to the half frame being the size and orientation of 35mm movie film.
Dec 6, 2020 07:15:35 #
JohnSwanda wrote:
I had a lot of fun back in the day with this Bell & Howell Dial 35 half frame. The knob at the bottom was a windup auto film advance. It was actually made by Canon, but they had a deal to brand some of them as Bell & Howell.
I had a couple of friends back in the 1970's who used half-frame cameras. One was the Bell and Howell like yours and I cannot remember the other one. They loved them. They were very portable and easy to carry. They did not have to carry as much film as others did since they got 2 shots per 35mm frame.
They were much like some of the small travel cameras we have today. Portable, light and capable.
Dec 6, 2020 11:17:02 #
cudakite wrote:
Way back in my callow youth I bought a half frame camera but cannot recall the maker. Which companies made such a thing?
In Nov 1969 I arrived in Vietnam and immediately went to the BX (Base Exchange) knowing I wanted a good camera. I was a poor airman with a wife and 2 kids at home, so money was very tight but my Instamatic was a plastic piece of junk and I knew it would not last long.
The only thing I knew about cameras was from watching Bob Hope shows where the troops were shooting pictures of the women on the news. I knew I wanted a camera that you couldn't see the subject if the lens cap was on the lens and didn't ever know what to call them (SLR). I was shown a lot of fantastic cameras with lots of bells and whistles, but I couldn't afford any of them. Finally I saw a Olympus Pen FT that had a 38mm lens and it had a simple metering system and got 72 pictures on a roll of 36 film. I got it, AND a 100-200mm zoom lens for only $71. That was the first and BEST camera I have ever bought!
Dec 6, 2020 11:49:45 #
Dec 6, 2020 12:23:33 #
JohnSwanda wrote:
Probably a reference to the half frame being the size and orientation of 35mm movie film.
I was born in Vietnam and back when I was there we called them "72 exposure camera" vs the "36 exposure camera" so we valued them more than the full frame cameras. Film were quite expensive then over there.
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