TWO-OUNCE CAMERA TAKES EIGHT PHOTOS (Aug, 1933)
That’s actually very impressive. I wonder how well it worked.
TWO-OUNCE CAMERA TAKES EIGHT PHOTOS
A pygmy camera, hardly larger than a golf ball, has been put upon the market in New York City. It weighs less than two ounces, and carries sufficient sixteen-millimeter film, the size used in amateur moving picture cameras, to take eight exposures. The camera’s size can be noted in the picture above.
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Charlie,
I eyeballed a frame from my 16mm computer animation in comparison to some Instamatic 110 negatives and it looks like 16mm is 1/4 the surface area of 110.
And mathematically, 1/4 the surface area of 35mm.
Probably equivalent to a 1.3megapixel digital camera.
640 x480?
DANG!
Where is my mini digital camera!?!
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16mm film, shot movie style (sprockets on the sides of the image) uses only 7.5mm of film per frame, so 8 shots means 60mm (less than 2.5″) of film. Shooting like a 35mm camera (sprocket on top an bottom, a 10.25mm height means about 13.7mm, or 110mm per 8 frames – call it 4.5″ of film.
I’d go with the smaller size, and a black-bag loader with a built in cutter. That would be easier to deal with than the Minox’s oddball film (but then again that was loaded into cartridges.)