Hey Everyone! Hope you're having a great week! Me? Can't complain. I've been indulging myself this year in film cameras. I just love these little machines. I have been exploring film like I never did before. When I first started in photography shooting film was the only option and I only shot manual SLR cameras and 35mm film. I really didn't even know about other formats or film sizes. Of course this was way before the internet and all of the info that we can get on all sorts of things now. I have been learning about all kinds of film photography that I never even knew that existed like the topic today of Half Frame Photography.  Now I have shot and own many 35mm cameras and even medium format 120 film with my Bronica ETR SI. But half frame is very interesting to me. Half frame is pretty much what it says its half of a regular sized 35mm shot. It takes the 35mm and doubles the exposures that you would normally get. So if you have a 36 exposure roll of film and you shoot half frame you get 72 shots out of it. So this is a very economical way to shoot. Of course there are advantages and disadvantages of shooting half frame. Half frame camera's came out in the 1950's with Olympus being the leader and the one who made them famous with their Penn series. Other companies followed like Canon. I have just purchases a half frame camera from Canon a Canon Demi EE17 which came out in 1966. I have just received it and put a roll of film through it.

Advantages of shooting half frame. Well the biggest and the most obvious is that it's more economical . You can shoot twice as much for the same price. But there are more advantages as well. The half frame camera's are set up to shoot in Portrait Orientation so normal shots when holding the camera are vertical. You have to turn the camera to get a landscape shot. This makes you look at things with a new perspective and makes your eyes look for portrait type shots which makes you grow as a photographer.  This orientation also makes it easy to shoot dyptics which is two photos with a theme or as a landscape. You can also shoot trypics just as easy to make a landscape . This is very cool for story telling and using photography for telling stories or concepts. Very cool! These cameras are small. About the same size as my Canon Canonet 17 but with a smaller lens protruding out of the front. So they make good travel and everyday camera's.

Disadvantages of shooting half frame. Well the biggest is the resolution of the negative. It's the half size of the full 35mm and therefore will show more grain and look more film like. If your like me that may not be so much of a disadvantage but if your looking for crisp sharp non grainy shots just use your digital camera that's what they are best at. I have heard that the resolution is great for printing up to 8 x 10 and using on social media is no problem. I will let you know when I have developed and scanned some into my computer. But for now I just have to go on what I have researched. 

I am very much looking forward to adding this camera to my arsenal of film cameras .  I think that it will become a great cary around everyday camera even when I'm shooting digital its small enough to come with me to shoot some film on every outing. Even when my better and larger cameras can't come. So until next week get out and shoot!