Olympus reloadable cartridge

rodinal

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Hello,

Among a lot of camera stuff I bought from a friend, I found a like-new Olympus reloadable cartridge for 35mm film. It looks similar to a Leitz or a Contax cartridge, but it's beautifully painted black. I've found no reference regarding this item and I have no camera this will fit in. Can you give me a hint about what camera did use this cartridge and the approximate value of it ? (I can post a picture later, but it will not add much information, I think)

Thank you!
 
Thanks Collin, but no, that's not my cartridge.
The thing I found is similar to a Leica IXMOO, for 36 exposure loads. If you don't examine it closely, it might be confused with a regular 35mm cartridge, but it has a rotating inner gate and a small pin to operate it. Ah!... and it says OLYMPUS.
Maybe for one of those Tower rangefinder cameras ?
Seems to be rather uncommon, but does it worth much?

Marcelo
 
Hi Roger,
Nice collection of yours!
I think I have something you don't... 😉
I want to share this, I'll post some photos later today (when back at home).

Marcelo
 
Ok, here are the promised images.

My description had an error, there is no rotating inner gate as in the Leitz/Nikon/Contax cartridges, but a felt lined gate, this cartridge has "lips" as a regular one. I think this feature makes it "universal". Closed, it may work as a regular cartridge with any camera. If the camera knew how to open it, then it works in the same fashion as a Leitz cartridge.

Brand name

OLY_CASS_TOP.jpg


Open

OLY_CASS_OPE.jpg


Disassembled.
On the background, IXMOO, FILCA, Nikon and Contax cartridges.

OLY_CASS_DISS.jpg
 
Thanks very much indeed. Didn't Pentax do something similar? This is half remembered from the 1960s...

Looks like an invitation to scratches, though, if the film always goes through that length of labyrinthine gate.

Cheers,

R.
 
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