I just snagged an Olympus Pen FT from fleabay. The Pen F series are half-frame 35mm SLRs (what actually used to be "full frame", the size that 35mm cinema frames still are… what we today call full frame was originally called double frame!).
Square composition definitely shook my world up, and I’m excited to see what composing with a vertical viewfinder does to how I see. I can also see how getting 72 shots per roll could go either way: a blessing if you’re shooting a lot, and a curse if you’re casually taking a shot here and there over the course of a week.
AAAHHHH!!
I want one of those things!
Though the idea of sitting down and scanning 72 tiny frames doesn’t appeal too much :>
Hah, me neither! I may end up scanning them as normal-sized frames and writing a little program with ImageMagick to batch-split them in half. (Should do the trick, at least for preview scans. Any keepers I’d obviously go back and do it for real.)
Also, I forgot to mention that the main reason I got it is so I can enlarge to the point where the grain falls apart at more reasonable sizes.