Fujifilm To Launch a ‘Half-Frame’ Fixed Lens Camera

[Canon Rumors]

Fujifilm seems to be nearing an announcement for is being called a “half-frame” fixed lens digital camera. How the half-frame will work is still a bit of a mystery. It makes sense with 35mm film cameras or something like the Pentax 17 to get more images onto a roll of film, but how is this going to work for digital?

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[koenkooi]

The V3 will be for triptych compositions

 

[Uneternal]

It might be a hybrid like their Instax Evo that \"prints\" on the film and allows you to add looks.

 

[navastronia]

I shoot half-frame 35mm photos with my Canon Demi and create diptychs with it. This is fun on film because there\'s the physical aspect - your two pictures are physically adjacent and can be scanned together.

I don\'t see the appeal of a digital \"half-frame camera,\" whatever that would mean. Seems fussy and twee, and I can\'t imagine there\'s a market for that.

If you want a new camera to shoot half-frame on, grab some film and a Pentax 17 and be done with it.

 

[DhlcadR6]

I despise Fuji niche....I mean you can shoot APS-C right.....right???

 

[Mistral75]

Oddly enough, the sensor is said to be oriented vertically (taller than wide; the same goes for the rear LCD in the sketches included in some of the documents, see the FCC registration files), but the optical viewfinder appears to be oriented horizontally (wider than tall).

(I'm talking about the leaked image, the one with the red masking, not the two AI-generated mock-ups)

 

[el peso]

Half-frame, double z-trans. Bravo Fjyudzee, burn!

 

[LDS]

Because of phones people got so used to portrait photos that camera have to adapt, it looks... to shoot dyptichs you don\'t really need such kind of camera, since it\'s not given the two images are shot one after the other - not even at the same time. It\'s anyway good to shoot photos for phone addicts who don\'t have to turn the phone horizontally to avoid to see a too small image...