{"id":1138,"date":"2009-01-09T00:38:36","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T07:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2026-02-19T10:50:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:50:33","slug":"a330-miniature-16-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1138","title":{"rendered":"#a330 :: Miniature 16 camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/010909.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1139\" title=\"ENLARGE\" src=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/010909-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"ENLARGE\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/010909-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/010909-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/010909.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.camerapedia.org\/wiki\/Universal_Minute_16\">these guys<\/a>, the Universal Minute 16 shot 16mm film in little cartridges.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a tight, dense little chunk of stainless steel, about half the size of a box of cigarettes. A fingernail pops up the two panes of the viewfinder. Round metal stud under the right finger trips the guillotine shutter, thumb lever on the right winds it. There&#8217;s an aperture control, and a fixed meniscus lens.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.submin.com\/16mm\/collection\/universal\/introduction.htm\">These guys<\/a> say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Universal Camera Co had achieved great success with the range of cameras starting with the Univex A. The 39 cent camera sold nearly 3 million in 1934. After the war they hoped to repeat the success with a subminiature camera as well as to maintain a tight control over the processing and available film. In 1949 they introduced the Minute 16 (as in small not 60 seconds), designed to resemble a miniature movie camera, including a pop up sports viewfinder. This venture is credited with making the firm bankrupt with over 2 million US dollars spent on research and development.And if you really want to get nuts, here&#8217;s how to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grodgers.com\/minute16.htm\">load the film cartridges<\/a> if you can find them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which I can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Plus I don&#8217;t want to get nuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to these guys, the Universal Minute 16 shot 16mm film in little cartridges. It&#8217;s a tight, dense little chunk of stainless steel, about half the size of a box of cigarettes. A fingernail pops up the two panes of the viewfinder. Round metal stud under the right finger trips the guillotine shutter, thumb lever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,19,1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ephemera","category-fetish","category-general","category-tool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1862,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions\/1862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}