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Dec 6, 2020 12:24:35   #
frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.
 
Scruples wrote:
Forgive my naïveté. I never heard of this format of a camera. It looks very interesting but very limiting.


Steve, I had one in the service when I was overseas, 1968. The gas a shutter that would cover half the film the move to the other side each picture. You go twice as many exposures per roll.

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Dec 6, 2020 12:35:04   #
14kphotog Loc: Marietta, Ohio
 
Had the Cannon one, loaned it to a friend. His house was broken into and it was stolen, along with his guns and his camera bag and 2 Maranda 35's.

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Dec 6, 2020 14:47:19   #
DJon41 Loc: Utah
 
Robot Star. Windup advance. Noninterchangeable lens. Sold it.

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Dec 6, 2020 16:22:38   #
Beenthere
 
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

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Dec 6, 2020 16:29:01   #
Beenthere
 
Scruples wrote:
Forgive my naïveté. I never heard of this format of a camera. It looks very interesting but very limiting.


Could give you 48 or 72 images on standard 35mm film, and I think Olympus made the best, or rather most well known camera in this format. If you remember the 60s or 70s, that's when it was a popular alternative.

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Dec 6, 2020 16:32:22   #
Beenthere
 
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


It was actually "half frame" based on 35mm still formats, but full frame if referred to cinema.

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Dec 6, 2020 16:52:04   #
BebuLamar
 
Beenthere wrote:
It was actually "half frame" based on 35mm still formats, but full frame if referred to cinema.


They call the 24x36mm format 35mm double frame.

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Dec 6, 2020 19:05:15   #
DeanS Loc: Capital City area of North Carolina
 
cudakite wrote:
An Olympus Pen it was! Thanks to all. =)


I still have one, but long since stopped functioning.

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Dec 6, 2020 19:18:32   #
Beenthere
 
DeanS wrote:
I still have one, but long since stopped functioning.


I can't remember what the hell I did with mine??

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Dec 6, 2020 21:49:09   #
Real Nikon Lover Loc: Simi Valley, CA
 
Photec wrote:
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!
In Nov 1969 I arrived in Vietnam and immediately w... (show quote)


Thanks for sharing that story and thank you for your service.
Jim

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Dec 7, 2020 00:13:37   #
RodeoMan Loc: St Joseph, Missouri
 
Interesting. Were there any different requirements for using an enlarger when making prints from the film in the home dark room.

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Dec 7, 2020 01:27:05   #
User ID
 
Photec wrote:
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!
In Nov 1969 I arrived in Vietnam and immediately w... (show quote)

Few better cameras have ever been built.

They were most definitely not toys. The 1960s Pen-F was so well respected that Olympus produced a similarly styled and very capable digital model, with exactly the same name. The digital re-issue of your old two-lens outfit is nearly $2000.

Your old outfit can be gathered together for about $400. Thaz right up there with favored film era Nikons and such.

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Dec 7, 2020 13:01:01   #
Old Coot
 
Petri

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