[Leica] Re: Spring half frame

[firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)]

On 02/12/2006, at 12:52, 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.

It was the camera used by Ringo Starr in A Hard Day's Night: I've  
always wanted one ;-)