C41
Kodak Gold 200
Kodak Gold 200 is a daylight-balanced C-41 color negative film with warm color, moderate grain, and a classic consumer-film look.
View profile →half-frame
The Pen EE-3 (1973) is a fully programmed half-frame 35mm camera. Selenium-cell meter (no battery needed) drives the aperture; the camera picks one of two shutter speeds (1/40s or 1/200s). Fixed-focus 28mm f/3.5 D Zuiko lens — sharp from ~1 m to infinity. 72 frames per 36-exposure roll because each frame is half a normal 35mm rectangle.
Reference
Recommended film stocks for the half-frame-35mm format your camera takes.
C41
Kodak Gold 200 is a daylight-balanced C-41 color negative film with warm color, moderate grain, and a classic consumer-film look.
View profile →C41
Kodak UltraMax 400 is a versatile consumer-grade ISO 400 daylight-balanced color negative film with T-grain emulsion, delivering warm Kodak colors, fine-for-speed grain (PGI 46), and wide exposure latitude. Currently in production and available globally as a single-roll and multi-pack.
View profile →BW
Develop half-frame-35mm film
We're growing the lab directory near you. Browse all labs.
Before you buy used
About this camera
The half-frame point-and-shoot that needs no batteries. 72 shots per roll, selenium meter, fixed-focus lens.
| Field | Value |
|---|
| Format | 35mm half-frame (18×24 mm vertical) |
| Lens | D Zuiko 28mm f/3.5, 4 elements / 3 groups |
| Years | 1973–1986 |
| Shutter | 1/40s or 1/200s, programmed leaf |
| Flash sync | All speeds |
| Meter | Selenium photocell (no battery) |
| Modes | Programmed AE; manual aperture for flash |
| Weight | 350 g |
| Battery | None |
The Pen line started 1959 with the original Maitani-designed Pen. The EE (Electric Eye) variants added selenium-meter AE: Pen EE (1961), Pen EE-2 (1968, hot shoe), Pen EE-3 (1973, refined cosmetics + permanent flash sync, plus a self-timer). Production ran 13 years until 1986. The Pen line as a whole sold more than 17 million units across all variants.
The Pen EE-3 is the half-frame everyone-grandma-had camera. Cheap, simple, robust, no batteries — it survived through decades of family snapshot duty. In the 2010s film revival, the Pen EE-3 became the "first half-frame" recommendation: cheap to acquire, twice as many frames per roll as a 35mm camera (helpful when film prices doubled), and the selenium meter still works on most surviving bodies.
The 2024 Pentax 17 explicitly references the EE-3's design heritage — vertical half-frame format, 28mm-equivalent lens, simple controls.
Lens fixed. Hot-shoe flash (manual aperture for flash mode). Original wrist strap.
Ilford HP5 Plus is a flexible ISO 400 black-and-white film with classic grain and strong push-processing tolerance.
C41
Kodak Portra 400 is a professional C-41 color negative film known for flexible exposure latitude, natural skin tones, and fine grain.
View profile →BW
Kodak Tri-X 400 is a classic black-and-white film known for strong tonality, visible grain, and documentary character.
View profile →Olympus Pen EE-3
Image coming soon