This is another nice half-frame camera — the Olympus PEN-D. It has an uncoupled meter and a smart way of setting aperture and shutter speed together. Works great and produces nice photos. Compared to the Canon Demi EE28 , it’s a bit bulkier, mostly due to the faster Zuiko 1.9 lens.
It features a Copal leaf shutter, fully mechanical, so no batteries are needed. Focusing is manual via a distance scale. Zone focusing works well once you get a feel for it.
Shutter speeds range from 8s to 1/500s.
update 07/2025: Olympus Pen-D post.
What a nice half-frame camera from 1960ties. I think one of the best, even better than Olympus PEN I think as it doesn’t stop you from doing ‘wrong’ shots and the viewfinder shows auto-selected speeds. It is light-weight, pleasant to hold, small enough.
View finder is beautiful, needle is not visible enough but is moving by iteself – no need to press shutter button. When in blue area and lens are set to ‘blue’ 3 meters as well the focus is guaranteed to be OK on anything from 3 meter to infinity.
More photos from Canon Demi EE28 also here: https://blog.sumbera.com/composed/
Here is recent suprising photo from the camera, no post processing, actually its digitalised form here is worse than real picture.
