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1930 Hit Camera

I picked up this 1930s Hit Camera from an antique market in St Jacobs, ON and decided to find out a little more about this miniature camera. After WWII the Japa...
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I picked up this 1930s Hit Camera from an antique market in St Jacobs, ON and decided to find out a little more about this miniature camera. After WWII the Japanese had a period of low spending capacity. So they enjoyed using cameras which didn’t use much film material, making 14×14mm exposures on narrow paper-backed 17.5mm film. This kept film costs affordable. The main design used for most of these cameras was that of a miniature version of a simple contemporary 35mm viewfinder camera, with leatherette covered body, chrome plated parts, a film advance control window in the back and a characteristic top with a simple viewfinder and film advance knob. Most of these cameras had a non-focusable lens with fixed small aperture, an everset shutter with bulb and instant mode.
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