Kodak Ektar H35: save on analogue film
Friday 27 May 2022, 20:02 by Elja Trum | 4,711 views | 8 commentsThis article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.
Do you want to get started with analogue photography and save on film at the same time? You can now order the Kodak EKTAR H35. When taking a photo, this camera uses only half of a 35mm film roll.
With the H35, you can therefore take twice as many photos on the same film roll as with a normal film camera.
The compact camera has a 22mm lens with a fixed aperture of f/9.5 and a shutter speed of 1/100s. The built-in flash can help you get a good possibly slightly better exposure.
The Kodak Ektar H35 is made by Retopro and has an official licence to use the Kodak name.
If you have this film roll printed in the usual way, you get prints with two photos directly next to each other on a single print, with a black bar between them.
Price and availability
The first batch of cameras is expected at the end of June this year. You can order the camera in the Netherlands for 60.50 euros from Buymorefilm.com. There is also a minimum of 4.95 euros in shipping costs.
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About the author
Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.
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8 comments
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Mac wrote on Monday 30 May 2022 at 08:19 | replyI still have a few Olympus half-frame cameras at home that work.
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These days, I notice that there are a lot of these kinds of messages (and by that I mean from manufacturers), saying that they have come up with something amazingly new. But which has existed for a long time already. -
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Mac wrote on Monday 30 May 2022 at 13:30 | reply
@elja,
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The best known is the Olympus Pen (so the analogue one, and not the digital one
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And the well-known 110 cartridge is actually nothing more than 35mm but then half. -
Jan Flinkenflögel wrote on Tuesday 31 May 2022 at 13:51 | replyApparently we are going back to the 60s of the Agfa Click and Clack. (Almost) nothing to set, a very mediocre lens (judging by the price) and that in half-frame format. Probably postcard-size prints at most. I photographed for years with the Olympus Pen FT (1, 2 and 4) with great pleasure. But those were real cameras: half frame, a single-lens reflex. With the 1, you still had to set everything yourself and in the viewfinder you saw a little pointer indicating whether the exposure was right (from + to -). A very good learning experience, also for understanding what the settings mean.
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I wonder what the added value of this camera is. -
JanBerend wrote on Tuesday 31 May 2022 at 14:28 | replyJust Google half-frame
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Fred Noomen wrote on Tuesday 31 May 2022 at 15:16 | replyAbsolutely awesome ! But can I use a "normal" roll of film for that ?
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Mac wrote on Wednesday 1 June 2022 at 07:28 | reply
@fred
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Yes, you only make more images. And you probably need to take the image into account oo. Camera in landscape orientation, image in portrait orientation (and vice versa of course) -
ErikvanRosmalen
wrote on Thursday 2 June 2022 at 07:58
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Half-frame, indeed. Smartly tapping into the current market of young people who want to work with analogue. I actually switched from 35mm to medium format/120 for the larger format, proportionally finer grain and nicer sharpness (and lack thereof).
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But, commercially speaking, this was smartly conceived!
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