the short worked :) came here to enjoy the full video. keep pushing the shorts, a lot more people will discover this gem

Such a great video I’ve got a ton on my wishlist now ❤

My first camera was a Olympus pen E.E3 it was given to me in 1980. For any budding photography student at the time it had the advantage using double the film length. From memory the images were acceptable.

When I was working in a camera store and a half frame camera came out (I think it was the Samurai), people were shocked by a side effect. Photofinishing was priced per print, so a nominal roll of 36 produced 72 on half frame and the price doubled. We were not cheap to begin with, but people who were used to getting 36 for $15. freaked out when it was $30.

Thanks :)  Always Interesting, and Entertaining !!!!     John Wade (so knowledgeable) !!!!!!!!  :)  :)  :)

Great video!! Very Thank´s!! I"m a half frame fan too. I have an Olympus Pen (EES-2), Konica EYE, Yashica 72-E, Canon Demi, Fujica Drive and a Chajka II😉

The trick with an Auto-Reflex (or Autorex if you have a Japanese market model) if you are combining half and full frame on the one roll, is when changing between the two: always wind the advance when the lever is on "FULL"

So if you're going from full frame to half, the lever is already pointing to "FULL" so wind the advance lever and then switch to "HALF"

When going back to full frame from half frame, switch the lever to "FULL" and then wind the advance lever.

Switching between them in this manner will always leave a 1/4 frame gap between your half frame negs and your full frame ones.

I have an Agfa Optima Parat half frame that I found at a flea market in Paris a few years ago. Nice little zone focusing autoexposure camera from the 1950s(?) or 1960s(?) that still works and makes nice images.

Somewhere I have a Fujica Drive half frame, clockwork drive camera. I can't think where it is, amongst my clutter debris, but its here somewhere.

The Canon Dial is a great Camera which fx was used by Jakob Holdt who made "American Pictures".

Very interesting. Not a half frame fan but have got and used a PEN_EES. Also got a Ricoh Caddy to try out but the thought of having to shoot 72 frames puts me off.

I still have an olympus EE simple to use and good  results but my favourite out of the Olympus range has to be the Pen S - like the Pen shown here but with an f.2.8 lens . I almost always used it with a roll of Kodakchrome 25 or 64 as this was cheaper than colour print D&P and , if you had a slide projector, the results were pretty impressive. Later I transferrred to Fujichrome . Why ? Fuji would return the slides ready-mounted so you could use them straight away whereas Kodak were a bit meaner in that your processed film would be returned as a roll in a tub along with the appropriate number of adhesive PAPER slide mounts : Fuji 1/2 frame came in nice white plastic mounts. At the time - early to late 1970s Kodak was the big Yellow god of the film industry . Looking back I think this was the beginning of the decline of Kodakchrome - in spite of its popularity and Paul Simon's tribute song to it. Sadly it's never coming back.

Canon also mad the Demi half frame.

Lovely cameras and a fun format,  but unless the lab you worked in had a lens and gate for half frame, printing them was a pain.  Trying to fit two half negatives onto a 5x7 and hand cutting them to get 3 1/2 x 5 prints.

Agfa Rapid has been around for a long time. The Mercury's shutter was copied by Olympus Pen F.

USSR : chaika (2, 2M, 3); AGAT-18

8 sprocket vs 4 sprocket half frame.