Bencini Minicomet (in case) - a photo on Flickriver

I bought this camera at a car boot sale on Sunday for £1. I hadn't heard of this model before, and was intrigued to find that it shoots 24 exposures on a roll of 127 film. This is achieved by having a reduced frame size of 2cm x 3cm, and using the 12 exposure backing paper markings twice over (the same idea as the much more common use of 16 exposures made by doubling up the 8 exposure markings).
The camera is very simple, with a single fixed shutter speed, no focus and no aperture control. It was made in Italy in the early 1960s, but there does not seem to be much information available about it online.
There was a film in the camera, though the wind on mechanism was broken, so it was only on the 3rd exposure. I managed to fix it, and got some images out of the very old film.

2012 is the centenary of the introduction of the 127 film format by Kodak in 1912. To mark this anniversary, I will be using as many 127 cameras as I can this year.
There is also a blog:
127centenary.blogspot.com/

Taken on: May 29, 2012

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