Olympus Pen (1959)

An original 1959 Olympus Pen, the little gray camera that made half-frame shooting popular. It splits each standard 35mm frame in two, so a roll lasts twice as long, which mattered when film and printing were a real expense. Yoshihisa Maitani designed it around a target price of 6,000 yen, as a…

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