British Invent Midget Camera (Jul, 1934)
British Invent Midget Camera
ANSWERING the demands of photographic fans for even more compact equipment, a London manufacturer has perfected a tiny camera which takes pictures the size of a postage stamp.
The midget device takes eight photographs on a roll of film and is to sell for about a dollar.
looks like a 17,5 mm camera
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Can’t believe it was invented on 1934… how much was a dollar worth by that year?
These devices prefer to be called ‘little cameras.’
Maybe the manufacturer sold the cameras at or below cost and
made the profit from developing and reloading the film.
today they would call it “nano”
Ronald: By that year a dollar was worth…approximately a dollar.
I think WW2 costs are 15-20 times lower than today and given it’s 1934 and there has just been a recession with deflation, in today’s money that’s about $25. Value! Unless I’m wrong…which happened once
Now.. for only 8 photos I don’t see a practical use… or maybe you can have a bag full of these cameras to continue taking.. :S
These dirty yellow Brit rats – we’d have drop a clouple more nukes on’em back in 1776.