Lomophotography’s half-frame 35mm camera series ‘the Lomourette Family’
Toronto. Last century, when Oskar Barnack designed the first Leica, he chose to use cut off pieces of movie film but at double the frame size (1 x 1.5 inch) rather than movie frame size (1 x .75 inch) to obtain better resolution.
Over the years, both film speed and resolution improved allowing the industry to manufacture so-called half-frame cameras to double the exposures per roll (72 vs. 36) while maintaining sensitivity and resolution. The idea of half-frame isn’t terribly new (witness the old Ansco Memo for example).
Recently, the folks at Lomography announced a trio of simple half frame 35mm cameras (based on the Diana) to let you ‘test your mettle’ using the old film technology once again. Film niche fans up here in the big smoke can drop by Downtown Camera to see this latest from Lomography.
