On Nov 28, 2007 3:18 PM, Paul Sorenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. >
In my favourite movie, Roman Holiday, Eddy Albert's character took some surreptitious photos of Audrey Hepburn's character with a little cigarette lighter camera. I always thought it was a fake, but in fact it was a real camera, the Echo 8: http://www.vintagephoto.tv/echo8.shtml I always thought that would have been a cool camera to own... cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 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.
