Half frame or double shot

On Substack, one person that constantly bring news from the film and film cameras industry is Molly Kate. A few weeks ago she mentioned that the Canadian company Flic Film has a new camera out, a half frame called “Double Shot”. So I jumped ahead and bought one from one of their distributors in London.

“Double Shot” is a pretty simple camera and it’s not the first 100% plastic camera that I own, you might remember my post about PN 919. The differences between the two cameras are:

• the Double Shot is a tinny bit bigger;

• the Double Shot has a flash operated by a single AA battery that can be turned on/off by sliding a button on front of the camera;

• the Double Shot gets 72 frames out of a 36 frames film;

• the PN 919 has a button at the back that allows panoramic photography;

• the PN 919 has a slider at the front that covers and protects the lens when not in use and also prevent accidental release of the shutter.

Both cameras have an autofocus fixed 28mm f/8 lens and are shooting at a speed of 1/125s. In order for the autofocus to work, the minimum distance to the subject is 1m in both cases. In the link above you can see some of the results from the PN 919 camera, bellow are the results using “Double Shot” and NC500 film.

My conclusions:

1. Focus is not the strongest point of this camera as it lacks lots of it most of the time.

2. I don’t mind the lack of sharpness but the noise is present too much even in the best lit environments.

3. Once the flash is introduced, the noise is unbearable in any situation.

4. At the moment I’m not sure if I want to give the camera another try.

Note: Please don’t tell me that the film is producing the noise as on the same day had the another roll of the same type of film in a different camera and the results are completely different.