Yet ANOTHER new half-frame 35mm camera

[xkaes]

Even a DEAD clock gives perfect time -- TWICE every day!

 

[MattKing]

I will quote my late father, from back when he was working as Customer Service manager at a Kodak Canada Kodachrome and Ektachrome processing lab:
"There have been more great photos taken with Instamatic and other box cameras than all the 35mm SLRs combined".

 

[Don_ih]

"There have been more great photos taken with Instamatic and other box cameras than all the 35mm SLRs combined".

Depends what you mean by a "great photo". If it means a photo that is privately treasured, you're father's statement holds true. If it means a photo of social, cultural, or historic significance, it's not even close to true.

 

[MattKing]

Depends what you mean by a "great photo". If it means a photo that is privately treasured, you're father's statement holds true. If it means a photo of social, cultural, or historic significance, it's not even close to true.

It is somewhere in between the two examples.
Whether or not a photo achieves a large audience does not determine its quality - just its familiarity to others.

 

[gbroadbridge]

I've seen many very good photos made with simple cameras -- fixed focus, exposure, singlet meniscus lens. Made a couple of those myself.

The tool provides capability or limitations; the user creates the end result by working within the limitations or using the capability.

Absolutely true, the camera that is used has very little to do with making of an exceptional photo.

The Magician, not the wand. Always.

 

[Don_ih]

Whether or not a photo achieves a large audience does not determine its quality - just its familiarity to others.

A "large audience" is not required for something to be culturally, socially, or historically significant - but it does need to exert enough influence for that claim to hold. And it has nothing to do with quality. Quality also doesn't make something either publicly significant or privately treasured. There are many high quality landscape and still life photos that no one on earth cares about in the slightest.

 

[epp]

And Holga has a new Holga 135HC -- not to be confused with its Holga 135TIM. I guess the "HC" mean Half-frame Camera". The 135HC is marked 47mm f8, but I think it's really a 28mm giving a 47mm perspective on half-frame. Single shutter speed. Doesn't look like it has a hot shoe, but it looks like it has a multi-exposure lever. Not sure. I think the picture cuts off half of the viewfinder. There are also new half-frames from Yulanbi, Hayamou, and Awopzzy -- easy to remember names!

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I recently purchased one. It has a hot shoe.

 

[xkaes]

I'm not surprised. Thanks for the update.