Half-frame 35 mm cameras are a favorite niche of mine, typically yielding 72+ exposures from an ordinary 36-exposure roll of film. Not so much for thriftiness's sake, but because it makes wandering about carrying nothing more than the camera itself a viable proposition. I've handled some half-frame cameras which had spotless film chambers, and wondered: Maybe many such cameras never saw more than one roll of film loaded by their original owners! It isn't too hard for me to imagine 72 exposures representing several year's worth of holiday snapshots for some casual shooters.
Perhaps Fujifilm thought the same thing. Submitted for your consideration, Japanese-market TW-3 half frame camera, circa 1985 with lithium batteries
soldered in place. Did they anticipate dealers installing new batteries as needed, or did they just assume that 5+ years was effectively the useful life of the camera? Whatever the case may be, 35+ years later, the original batteries still had a faint spark of life left in them (not enough to actually do much, mind you), and I was able to replace them readily enough.
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