'Midg' Magazine and 'HIT' Miniature Cameras: The Extremes of Photography

Like what I make? Want fewer sponsorship ad reads? Consider contributing to my Patreon at patreon.com/OurOwnDevices Before the advent of celluloid roll film, amateur snapshot cameras used small glass photographic plates. Repeat shots were achieved using magazine 'falling plate' cameras, among the most popular of which was the Butcher Company's 'Midg' series, produced between 1902 and the 1920s. 'HIT' cameras were a type of subminiature camera using tiny 17.5mm film rolls, produced in Japan both immediately before and immediately after the Second World War. They were incredibly popular as curiosities and knickknacks in the United States in the immediate post-war years, with hundreds of thousands being imported between 1945 and the mid-1950s. SOURCES: www.submin.com/17.5mm/collection/index.htm www.submin.com/17.5mm/collection/gemflex/index.htm www.submin.com/17.5mm/collection/babyflex/index.ht… www.submin.com/17.5mm/collection/jenic/index.htm photo-analogue.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-midg-falli… licm.org.uk/livingImage/Ensign_Midg.html