828

[Michael Kaplan <mkaplan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I went to my local photo dealer to see if he had anything in 828. He did: 
two versions of the Kodak Bantam folding camera, and a German product 
called the Photovit, a tiny, Robot-sized camera taking 12 square images 
on a roll. 

Well, I was hooked. I wound up buying the simpler, older Kodak Bantam. 
Its all-Bakelite body measures 5.5 x 11 cm. It has a fixed-focus Kodak 
Anastigmat 53 mm
lens with two openings: f/6.3 (for Kodachrome) and f/11 (for Kodacolor 
and Plus-X). The self-cocking shutter runs at what I assume is 1/50 sec.
The camera has a sports-type folding viewfinder.

The camera back has a window with a green filter. The take-up mechanism 
(the reel was actually there!) has a detent mechanism connected to a pin 
that tracks the perforations (apparently one per frame) and enables it to 
stop automatically at each frame. The dealer said that he had some 828 
film in his warehouse, and would get some to me. He thought it had been 
discontinued in the 1960s.

Obviously, the attraction of this camera was its size. The model I have 
is about 2/3 the size of my Leica Standard, yet takes larger pictures.

Now to find a Haneel Tri-Vision.



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Michael Kaplan
Associate Professor of Architecture
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
mkaplan@xxxxxxx


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