Hah! I still have one of those too, in the original box and I think with the manual. I have a cassette but I've never loaded it with film.
Highest bidder wins... ]'-) G On Nov 28, 2007, at 12:18 PM, Paul Sorenson 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. > > -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. -- 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.
