Would Someone Educate me on 110 SLRs?

126, and I believe also 110, have pre-exposed borders. As well as I remember from 126 days, this allows printers to standardize on the frame size.

 

That makes sense in light of how the negatives look.

 

BTW, I've also bought some Lomo "Orca" B&W film. Hopefully it's a bit finer grained that the color film.

That makes sense in light of how the negatives look.

 

BTW, I've also bought some Lomo "Orca" B&W film. Hopefully it's a bit finer grained that the color film.

 

The Orca is a nice film. Enjoy

The Orca is a nice film. Enjoy

 

Thanks. It should be fun to play with when it gets here.

 

I've also been reading up a bit on microfilm and on loading it into a 110 cartridge. Unfortunately, it looks like I need a Super Auto 110 to get the +1.5 EC to get the exposure correct on ASA 25 microfilm.

 

Freestyle sells Agfa 35mm perforated microfilm pre-rolled into 35mm cans for a reasonable price-I'll buy some of that before I start experimenting with it in 35mm. Fortunately, I don't have to worry about the perforations for the Pentax, so can use unperforated 16mm microfilm.

I don't know about Olympus 110 SLR but Pentax made the entire system with interchangeable lenses. Minolta made 2 models but they both have non-interchangeable zoom lens. They are cool but I didn't want to get them as quality of the images are poor due to the small film.

Ive seen very sharp images from the first minolta 110 zoom. Images were far from poor quality.

Alright, here's my first attempt.

 

I'm not normally a fan of "full frame" scans, but left them here for a couple of reasons.

 

One of these is that I couldn't manage to get the orange mask completely out of the scan. Apparently, though, Vuescan was still able to get the color right-or at least it looks good to me.

 

Second, you'll notice that the cut-off isn't exactly at the frame edge. I hesitate to call it "ghosting", but as you can see the image extends out(at much lower density) past the proper "frame." I'm not sure if this is a peculiarity of the camera or if most 110s do this. My only other 110 camera was a Kodak I had when I was quite young(my aunt gave it to me after she bought a Disk) and I never looked at the negatives(if I could even find them).

 

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Both 126 and 110 have pre-exposed borders, such that they are white in positives. The words are then unexposed, and black in positives.

 

I think I have known before that the exposed borders aren't quite enough to stop any image from coming through, especially if you overexpose it.

However, printing machinery is designed for the specified frame size. I am not sure about slides.

Both Kodachrome and Ektachrome came in both 126 and 110.

 

110 slides came back in either 2x2 mounts, or smaller mounts, for a smaller

Carousel projector. Kodak was all prepared for people to take 110 seriously.

 

But yes, not all the films from 35mm or 120 made it into those sizes.

There was TX126, but I don't remember TX110.

Back in the 80s I went on a bit of a camera collecting bender and bought and shot with cameras of a whole range of formats including a couple of very interesting old 5x7 cameras. Included in my explorations were a few sub-miniature formats including Minox (B and IIIS with Minox enlarger, tanks etc.), 110 (Minox 110S which I still have), half-frame (Pen F and FT) and Robot (those were gorgeous and I wish I'd kept the Royal Model III). All great fun and a fine learning experience, though I sold off most of them in the early 90s and bought a house. I didn't use the 110 very much, but the MinoxB was fun and made decent enough images if I used slower film. The Pens were great and easy to to work with, but the Robot was the star of the show, 24x24 images included.

When it was introduced, I came thisclose to trading my Rollei 35S for a new Pentax 110 kit, but chickened out last minute (mostly shot chromes then, not the best format for 110).

 

A first-version Minolta 110 Zoom SLR came "free" in the camera bag of a Nikon F I bought some years ago. Nifty camera, still works perfect, unfortunately the lens is completely clotted with fungus so I can't actually use it. They're virtually worthless now, so nothing to lose: maybe on a rainy day I'll try to get the Minolta lens apart to fumigate it.

 

Always wanted to try a Robot: really should have bought one back in the '90s when they weren't so collectible.

Edited July 17, 2019 by orsetto

When it was introduced, I came thisclose to trading my Rollei 35S for a new Pentax 110 kit, but chickened out last minute (mostly shot chromes then, not the best format for 110).

 

A first-version Minolta 110 Zoom SLR came "free" in the camera bag of a Nikon F I bought some years ago. Nifty camera, still works perfect, unfortunately the lens is completely clotted with fungus so I can't actually use it. They're virtually worthless now, so nothing to lose: maybe on a rainy day I'll try to get the Minolta lens apart to fumigate it.

 

Always wanted to try a Robot: really should have bought one back in the '90s when they weren't so collectible.

I had a few of them, but the Royal was the one I really liked. I should have kept the thing (I've said that before)....