Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Larry You are absolutely right, the Canon Dial....It's been 40 years so my memory might be getting a bit like B.D.'s. :-) Walt Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: > > On Dec 1, 2006, at 4:15 PM, Walt wrote: > >> I remember an Olympus half-frame model the helicopter pilots used in >> Vietnam. It had a wind up spring motor and made flying and shooting at >> the same time a bit easier. Canon also had a half-frame model (I think) >> but sans motor. > > > > I don't remember a spring wind Olympus 1/2 frame but I do remember > the Canon Dial. This was a camera about the size of a cigarette pack > with a spring wind handle protruding from the bottom. The name "Dial" > comes from the rotary telephone like dial attached to the front of > the camera and rotated for setting aperture. Another spring operated > 1/2 frame was the Ansco Demi. This was also cigarette packed size and > the wind up knob was on the top. The Konica AA was a battery operated > 1/2 frame camera with auto focus and auto exposure which looked like > the Kodak Disc submini. Probably the most ambitious auto wind 1/2 > frame was the Yashica Samurai. This SLR had a zoom lens, auto focus, > auto exposure, and built in flash. It was meant to be a complete > camera kit in a case the volume of three cigarette packs. According > to Olympus, the advent of the Rollei 35 and its ilk killed off the > 1/2 frame movement. Few would buy a 1/2 frame camera, given the > difficulty in getting processing, when a full frame camera smaller > than most 1/2 frames was available. And then came the digitals which > killed them all off. > > Larry Z > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >