Novelty Subminiature Hit Camera
Hit Camera, it was one of my yearning camera when I was a young child. A camera on the photo is actually a camera called "Crown Camera". There was a "Hit Type camera" on a camera list from US shop, I had felt a dear dream on my childhood. I got it but the shutter was out of fix and could fix it without problem. 1947 - 50' Japanese novelty.
There was an advertising of Hit Camera on the boys magazine on that age and I was dreaming to have it someday. The price was so high for a small child because it was a couple of years after ended WW-II Japan. I couldn't buy it to the last though I kept the dreaming for long time. This is only a simple reason why I got it.
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Focus length might be 25mm approximately and they had usually F11 single element lens with Bulb and Instant(1/30sec) shutter. It is possible to expose 10 of 14x14mm size on 16mm rollfilm with black paper.
Right photo is a true Hit camera I recently got on ebay. I bitted it in spite of myself as remembered it had such a nice case(Nov 1999). This little miniature camera measured 2" long and about 1 3/8" tall. It was good condition, with a shiny chrome. Happy to say it still had a roll film in it, I got two film spools and magazine.
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A camera left side is a Minolta 16, not a novelty, a bit smaller than a box cigarette, was put in order to compare the size. You can imagine how Hit camera is small. My mom bought Minolta 16 for me when I enterd high school. I still use Minolta 16, but diffrent cameras, these days. T.Kubo(Main editor)
A sample photo by Novelty Hit Type "Crown Camera"
25mm F11 Instant(1/30sec) T-Max100 (July 1998)
