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Subject: [Leica] Re: Single vs. 1/2 frame
From: jhnichols at bellsouth.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sun Jul 22 08:04:19 2007
References: <200707221220.l6MCJYwX042283@server1.waverley.reid.org> <A28E4F14-97E8-49E8-8906-D92CE2FCFE17@optonline.net>

Larry,

You make me realize that I'm older than most Luggers.  It has always been 
single-frame and double-frame for me, since I am vintage 1930.  My 
single-frame experience started with the Universal Mercury II, which I still 
have.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lawrence Zeitlin" <lrzeitlin@optonline.net>
To: <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 8:52 AM
Subject: [Leica] Re: Single vs. 1/2 frame


>
> On Jul 22, 2007, at 8:20 AM, Mark wrote:
>
>> I remember getting WESS slide mounts from a camera store on Manchester
>> Street in Maplewood Mo a suburb of St. Louis in the 70s and the  half 
>> frame
>> slide mounts were labeled "single frame".
>> While regular slide mounts for the normal 24x36 format were labeled 
>> "double
>> frame" and I still have some of those mounts. Each one says that on  it.
>
> It was that way for me too. According to photo historians, the first 
> commercial 35 mm cameras such as the Tourist Multiple, introduced in 
> 1912, used the same 35 mm frame sizes as movie cameras. In fact one,  the 
> Sept, could be used to take short movie sequences. One of  Barnack's 
> innovations was to double the frame size to 24 x 36 mm,  i.e. double 
> frame. In fact he wasn't even the first to do it. Up  through WW2, 35 mm 
> cameras were referred to as double frame. I guess  it wasn't until the 
> Japanese started popularizing single frame  cameras in the 50s and 60s 
> that it started being called 1/2 frame.  Probably to give the idea that 
> you go twice as much for your film  dollar.
>
> Larry Z
>
>
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