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 Olympus Pen - 1959                    New! WidePhotoViewer for iPhone/iPod/iPad       
      

First Japanese half-frame camera
Made half-frame popular
$29.50 with f3.5 lens in 1960 ($217 in 2010 dollars)

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Olympus certainly didn't invent half-frame, although it wasn't always called "half" frame since it was a full 35mm movie frame. This ad from the October 1948 issue of Popular Photography called it single-frame:

 

 


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