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November 11, 2024

35mm Half Frame Camera List

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November 10, 2024

Petri Compact 17

Petri Compact 17 In the 1960s, the ever-changing hobbyist photography market got a new trend to chew upon: the half-frame 35mm format on a 135 cartridge. Technology has evolved towards smaller film formats, from the early film available for amateur, the #120 format, to the #127, the smallest reasonable contact print, to the #135, #828, Rapid, Karat and Bolta. The...

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October 19, 2022

Ducati Simplex

Ducati Simplex Ducati Simplex current value Ducati Sogno current value After WWI, Italy was rebuilding its industrial infrastructure, boosted by a government ministry created for this purpose. The traditionally industrial north saw heavyweights and entrepreneurs getting into industries championed by the Germans. Such was the Ducati family, who set shop in Bologna, making small engines and branching into optical instruments...

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October 30, 2020

Canon Dial 35

Canon Dial 35 Preamble On a bright summer day sometime in the early 1980s, I was negotiating the narrow streets of Salzburg, Austria. Being a medieval city and spread around a hill, streets are winding to boot. As a navigation instrument, I used a large sheet of paper printed in many colours, which, for the benefit of the younger readers,...

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September 3, 2020

Taron Chic

Taron Chic Taron chic current value Taron Chic user manual At the heels of the WZFO Alfa comes another odd, vertical camera, the Taron Chic. At the heels is not entirely correct as it refers to the order it is being presented on this site, where the Taron Chic was introduced a year earlier than the WZFO Alfa. The difference...

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September 25, 2019

Konica Autoreflex Half Frame

Konica Autoreflex Half Frame Konica Autoreflex current value Konica Autoreflex Half Frame user manual The year is 1966. The world camera makers rush to design and introduce compact SLR cameras. Saying ‘world’ and ‘compact SLR’ would seem all-inclusive, which is not. The Brits, Italian, French, and Americans have all but abandoned the high-end camera lines. The only real players yet...

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August 29, 2019

WZFO Alfa

WZFO Alfa WZFO Alfa current value WZFO Alfa user manual To its given luck, the Polish nation is located in between western and eastern Europe. On the face of it, it couldn’t be better, being a commercial and cultural gateway between the two. Regrettably, it was not so as each invading power marching either east or west had passed through...

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March 31, 2019

Olympus Pen Family

Olympus Pen family Olympus pen current value Model Year Meter Distance Shoe Flash sync Timer Flash Lens Qty made Pen 1959 Selenium 3.5 27,000 Pen S 1960 Selenium X X X 2.8 645,000 Pen D 1962 Selenium X 1.9 265,000 Pen D2 1964 CdS X 3.5 140,000 Pen D3 1965 CdS X...

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March 12, 2019

Olympus Pen F Family

Olympus Pen F Family I became aware of the Olympus Pen F and variants about five years ago. Excuse my ignorance. Once I read about that line I wanted one, and fast. There were some on eBay, costly, so I settled on a one from a fellow Ontarian which was cheap. The camera, l not the fellow Ontarian. The seller...

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