I've never used a watch camera either, but as a kid in the early 1950's I had a Minute 16.
http://www.pimall.com/nais/pivintage/universalcam.html Wish I still had it...it was fun for a kid who was just experiencing the magic of photography and was content with prints no larger than wallet size. I'm not sure where the author of this page got his info though. It was not multi-functional and could never shoot movies due to the size of the film cassette, which only held about a dozen frames of 16mm film. -p Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > On Nov 27, 2007, at 7:00 PM, John Celio wrote: > >> http://tinyurl.com/2q89x7 >> >> I would absolutely love to shoot with any of these cameras, but I'd >> especially love to shoot with the ring camera. > > Dr. Steineck's creations (the Tessina and the watch camera) are > delightful, fun subminiatures. I've never had the pleasure of working > with the watch camera, but I owned a Tessina for a bit. > > It was a somewhat difficult camera to work with. The TLR viewfinder > wasn't particularly good for focusing, although useful for framing. > You focus mostly using DoF and distance setting. The lens is good if > the focusing scale was in calibration. The spring-wound film > transport is fragile. Of course, you also have to cut and load > special cassettes for the 7x21 mm format 35mm film. > > Fun stuff ... It was pricey and fun to play with, but I spent too > much on it and ended up selling it back to the original owner after a > year or two (recovered most of the cost of purchase and service in > doing so). I didn't make many photos with it, here are some: > > http://homepage.mac.com/godders/200201-tessina/ > > If you want to enjoy a subminiature film camera *and* get good > photographs consistently, consider a Minox or Minolta 16 II camera .. > much more useful as a camera rather than an object of curiosity. I > have a couple of each of them available for sale... :-) > > Godfrey > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
