Great video!! Very Thank´s!! I"m a half frame fan too. I have an Olympus Pen (EES-2), Konica EYE, Yashica 72-E, Canon Demi, Fujica Drive and a Chajka II😉
I have an Agfa Optima Parat half frame that I found at a flea market in Paris a few years ago. Nice little zone focusing autoexposure camera from the 1950s(?) or 1960s(?) that still works and makes nice images.
My first camera was a Olympus pen E.E3 it was given to me in 1980. For any budding photography student at the time it had the advantage using double the film length. From memory the images were acceptable.
Very interesting. Not a half frame fan but have got and used a PEN_EES. Also got a Ricoh Caddy to try out but the thought of having to shoot 72 frames puts me off.
Lovely cameras and a fun format, but unless the lab you worked in had a lens and gate for half frame, printing them was a pain. Trying to fit two half negatives onto a 5x7 and hand cutting them to get 3 1/2 x 5 prints.
I can imagine. I did comment how much of a nightmare it must have been to print film from the Konica Autoreflex, where you can switch between half and full-frame mid-roll.
Great video!! Very Thank´s!! I"m a half frame fan too. I have an Olympus Pen (EES-2), Konica EYE, Yashica 72-E, Canon Demi, Fujica Drive and a Chajka II😉
Thanks :) Always Interesting, and Entertaining !!!! John Wade (so knowledgeable) !!!!!!!! :) :) :)
I have an Agfa Optima Parat half frame that I found at a flea market in Paris a few years ago. Nice little zone focusing autoexposure camera from the 1950s(?) or 1960s(?) that still works and makes nice images.
The Canon Dial is a great Camera which fx was used by Jakob Holdt who made "American Pictures".
My first camera was a Olympus pen E.E3 it was given to me in 1980. For any budding photography student at the time it had the advantage using double the film length. From memory the images were acceptable.
Very interesting. Not a half frame fan but have got and used a PEN_EES. Also got a Ricoh Caddy to try out but the thought of having to shoot 72 frames puts me off.
Lovely cameras and a fun format, but unless the lab you worked in had a lens and gate for half frame, printing them was a pain. Trying to fit two half negatives onto a 5x7 and hand cutting them to get 3 1/2 x 5 prints.
I can imagine. I did comment how much of a nightmare it must have been to print film from the Konica Autoreflex, where you can switch between half and full-frame mid-roll.
@AmateurPhotographerTV Thankfully I never encountered that.
Somewhere I have a Fujica Drive half frame, clockwork drive camera. I can't think where it is, amongst my clutter debris, but its here somewhere.
Canon also mad the Demi half frame.
8 sprocket vs 4 sprocket half frame.