They were fun, I used to carry a Demi EE1.7 as a sort of a notebook camera. Loaded with Ilford's Autowinder film it had 144 shots available. It rode along in a pouch on my belt sort of like digitals do today.
And 1/2 frame (actually it is single frame, normal 35mm still cameras are double frame) was incrediably popular in Japan almost every camera maker made several but many did not export them. I think they started to die out when they began making the small double frame rangefinder cameras. I recall that they were pretty much passe by the end of the 70's
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Jim Apilado wrote:
Half-frame was fun. I recall when the small Olympus Pen came out. It was a fun camera to carry in my coat pocket for those quick grab shots - and you could get a lot of them. Half-frame was the craze in Japan in the Sixties.\
-- graywolf http://graywolfphoto.com
"You might as well accept people as they are, you are not going to be able to change them anyway."
