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Canon Demi EE17

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The Canon Demi is a half frame camera, 'Demi' being the French word for "half". It uses ordinary cartridge style 35mm film, but takes two 24 x 18mm exposures in the place of a normal 24 x 36mm film frame. This means a 36 exposure roll will actually hold 72 separate half frame photos. This could be quite a saving per exposure for a simple snapshot camera: economics was the reason for the half frame cameras of the sixties. Color film was very expensive in comparison to B&W films at the time.

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