SUPERHEADZ HALF FRAME CAMERAS
Superheadz made a bunch of half-frame cameras. Actually, they are
all the same camera, but they have different names and different exteriors
-- reminiscent in some ways of the Ricoh Auto-Half E half-frame models, but less
sophisticated. They all have a simple viewfinder on the top of the
22mm, wide-angle, fixed-focus lens (like a 32mm lens in full-frame 35mm) with two aperture settings -- f8.5
& f11 -- and a single shutter speed of 1/100s. That combination
assures that everything will be in focus. It's bright spots are the
built-in hot shoe, a nice, smooth, soft image, and only 3.5"w, 1"d, 3"h in
size -- quite small, and very lightweight. It supposedly was designed
for ISO 100 film, but in a sunny situation it will be over-exposed quite a bit
-- even at f11. There are three settings -- dialed in on the top
of the lens. For sunny situations, select the SUN icon -- f11. For
lower light situations, select the CLOUD icon -- f8.5. For indoor situations or
low light,
select the FLASH icon -- f11. Why they would set the FLASH setting to f11
seems odd, but there it is. And even stranger feature is that if a flash
is attached, it will fire at any lens setting -- FLASH, CLOUD or SUN.
These settings are imprinted on the back of the camera, but they are very hard
to read -- even in good light. Other speed films can, of course, be used
-- and with any simple, hot shoe, auto-exposure flash, these cameras can be
easily turned into a very versatile, aperture-preferred, auto-exposure,
half-frame camera! The usable distance will
depend on the power of the flash, of course, and the f-stop selected on the
camera.
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