Our best seats ever for a Detroit Tigers game

Hubby found this great 35mm half frame camera from the late 30s/ early 40s. It has a very unusual rotating shutter, which makes it look like a Dimetrodon with it's sail on it's back. Also the frame is actually slightly wider than a true half frame, only 11 of the 12 frames from my longest pano fit in my 6 standard frame film holder for the scanner. But the strangest thing with the Mercury I is that Univex didn't design it to use the standard 135 cassette. They made their own 35mm roll film, sprockets and all. Well you can't get that any more, nor can you cut down some other backing paper, sprockets. So I just used some bulk film and loaded and unloaded it in a darkroom.

Photographer:
alburnkat
Uploaded:
2014-07-10
Tags:
b&w detroit frame half mercury tigers univex
Camera:
Univex Mercury I
Film:
Ilford P4 Surveillance 400 Bulk
City:
Detroit, MI
Country/region:
United States
Year:
2014
Time:
afternoon
Albums:
Tigers Game with the Univex Mercury I
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