True, I never got how people don't feel like a freak doing street photography

I agree, I have always found people who take photos without consent creepy, I find photographers who ask before taking pictures of other people to be a more respectful.

@@TinLeadHammer There's absolutely no need for consent. If you're on the street you have no expectation of privacy. Asking for permission is cool if you want to make a posed portrait but it's absolutely not necessary or creepy to shoot candid photography. It's absolutely vital actually.

Oh god

But street photography for me is catching those fleeting moments of everyday life and asking for permission makes it posed. This is street portrait photography and my style is being candid and the people just make up part of the story of street, so often the surrounding outscales the people. I think that tales the real story of the street.

Go for it! I got mine yesterday and I am still working my way through my test roll. I have an Olympus Pen, but the shutter speeds are iffy at best, so half the roll never comes out right. the simplicity of a true point and shoot is very attractive, as is the price.

@@georgecaldwell704 Yeah I ended up pulling the trigger. Its a good backup for when I don't want to worry about damaging or losing the camera, for messing with expired rolls, and I have an upcoming party that I'm going to load up and have as a party "Take Pictures with Me" affair where image quality is not the priority. Sometimes cheap fun IS good enough

Don’t forget that the Kodak has flash. With no need to worry about too-slow shutter speeds, and no need to worry about missed focus or too-shallow depth of field, the Kodak probably takes better indoor/night pics (despite the lower quality lens).

Not necessarily true. I saw an immaculate Pen EE in a local thrift store recently for just $18, it even had the original soft pouch. The trouble with half frame was that after the initial boom in the early 1960s they didn't catch on with the masses - why fiddle about with a 135 cassette when you could slap a cartridge into an Instamatic? So you find a lot of pristine Olympuses, Minoltas, Yashicas and Konicas that have been gathering dust since the late 60s emerging now that Grandpa has died and the grand-kids are having a clear out. I still have mine in the back of a cupboard and used to shoot Kodachrome with it. Trouble was that, in the UK, you'd have to send it off to Kodak and they'd sting you for additional cost - double the photos, double the holders.

@@jeffreycrawley1216 Well sure and some lucky folk have found Hasselblads at garage sales, but for the rest of us unlucky lot it takes quite a bit of searching. Very jealous of your Pen find!

I've also been on the hunt for a half frame camera. Though I'm not too into rangefinders, the minolta repo s would be my dream camera for this. But I'll have to settle on the H35 for now.

I feel like the bucket hat is good for the “making friends” with strangers approach to street photographer. Most of the street photographers I see in NYC end up taking kinda the opposite approach, and they end up looking they are auditioning for a “burglar in an alarm system commercial” acting gig.

Charles, thank you so much for the wonderful note, agreed fully, there really is nothin better

That camera is so gorgeous!

So glad you dug it MM!!

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Yeah definitely AJ! B&W was the only option for me since I had to develop the film myself and edit so quickly, but I 100% agree that this would have been great to see in color!

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if you look up how half-frame cameras work, they "cut" the full frame right in the middle. So instead of having one horizontal frame, you have two vertical ones. Therefore, when you take a picture holding the camera just like you normally would, the photo is vertical, and you have to rotate it 90º to get a landscape picture

The strip of film is horizontal like normal, but to fit two half frames they are in portrait orientation (versus like a Yashica Samurai that loads the film vertically so the frames are in landscape orientation) The viewfinder is in portrait too to help you, and you can always rotate the camera to take landscape photos. Since two frames fit on a single 35mm frame it caters well to the pairing of two photos. Personally I think taking diptych paired photos is the main purpose of this camera. Half frames are, after all, half the resolution so taking single shots might not be the best use case for this, and when you take pairs the sting of its cheap lens (compared to higher end half frame cameras like an Olympus Pen) is greatly reduced thanks to the visual storytelling and visual interest you create in that gap.

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@@InAnInstant thx

@@InAnInstant could you send a new one it is expired

1/125s, f/9.5, 1m to infinity

Color, too!

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Correct, it is half the resolution!

It legit jolted me up when I first saw it in the edit 🥊😤