{"id":35795,"date":"2020-08-22T08:36:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T15:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=35795"},"modified":"2020-08-22T08:54:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T15:54:17","slug":"tessina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2020\/08\/22\/tessina\/","title":{"rendered":"Tessina"},"content":{"rendered":"

A quirky, miniature 35mm camera.<\/i><\/p>\n

If the spy camera special, the Minox<\/a>, had a focused target audience, it’s harder to say what the purpose of the Tessina was.<\/p>\n


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\nA wrist-sized twin lens reflex.<\/i>
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Made between 1957 and 1996, the Tessina used regular 35mm sprocketed film stock, but this had to be loaded in special cassettes. The camera was just 2.5″ x 2″ x 1″ in size. The image was 14mm x 21mm (compare with the 8mm x 11mm of the Minox) making the area more than three times the size, and 34% that of the full 24mm x 36mm regular 35mm film frame. A cassette was good for some 24 exposures.<\/p>\n

Accessories included a wrist strap, minuscule selenium cell exposure meter and a pentaprism for eye level viewing, the default being waist (wrist?) level through the composing lens. The taking lens is off to the side – like a miniature Rolleiflex TLR turned through 90 degrees. Film advance was by spring, good for 8 exposures, wound like a watch, testifying to the Tessina’s Swiss heritage.<\/p>\n

There’s no arguing with the quality of the machine, and I recall selling a couple when working a summer job at Dixon’s in London in the late 1960s. But why you would buy one of these costly pieces of jewelry beats me to this day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A quirky, miniature 35mm camera. If the spy camera special, the Minox, had a focused target audience, it’s harder to say what the purpose of the Tessina was. A wrist-sized twin lens reflex. Made between 1957 and 1996, the Tessina used regular 35mm sprocketed film stock, but this had to be loaded in special cassettes. … Continue reading Tessina<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35795"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35802,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35795\/revisions\/35802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}