Instant 35mm

1964 Product Preview.

 

 

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No. It wasn't a threat to Polaroid. This is about the 126 film cartridge and how it will revolutionize the industry.

 

 

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Keppler writes about hand holding a SLR with a long lens.

 

 

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Here is the Behind the Scenes column.

 

 

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What are the advantages of Agfacolor?

 

 

Agfacolor 1 sm 2

Here is this month's Too Hot to Handle column.

 

 

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Bennett Sherman writes about the latest methods in lens testing.

 

 

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The 35mm column looks at the new 126 film cartridge.

 

 

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Here is Camera 35's look at new equipment including a Canon auto focus camera, in 1963!!!

 

 

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Switching over to Camera 35 magazine we have Arthur Kramer write about two-solution developers.

 

 

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Here are this month's camera equipment ads.

 

 

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Here are this month's dealer ads.

 

 

Henry's 1 sm 2

Instant 35mm?

That should put all the digital guys out of business......

;)

A really fun issue to see. My parents gave me an Instamatic 124 which had the same shutter and lens as the 100 mentioned in the article. By the time the 124 was released, Tri-X and High Speed Ektachrome were also available in 126.

Ten years later when 110 cameras were introduced there were dire rumblings that this small format could gobble up 35mm cameras. Didn't work out that way, what with compact auto 35mm RF's like the Konica C35 plus offerings from other camera companies that were just as small.

I have some pictures taken with my mom's Kodak 124 instamatic which I got to use after Dad bought her an SX70.

Those little cameras documented many American families during my childhood.

Here is one from that old Kodak Instamatic 124.....

Thanks as always!!

 

 

But Instamatic!

 

There are many "photographic" moments in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but one of my favorites is when Roy is clumsily trying to load his Instamatic for an expected return of the UFOs

I was surprised to learn that individual speeds on a camera can go bad, independently of all the other speeds. Apparently, shutter speeds don't work quite how I thought they work.

For obvious reasons the entry level Instamatics with their f 11 lenses and 1/40 and 1/90 second shutter speeds were optimized for best results with ISO 64 films (Kodachrome-X and Ektachrome-X) Later Kodacolor-X was ISO 80 well within its latitude. Here's an Ektachrome-X slide from my 124 that was taken in 1969. Cropped slightly. Conditions must have been about right for this to work out.

Santa Rosa Island, Florida

There are many "photographic" moments in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but one of my favorites is when Roy is clumsily trying to load his Instamatic for an expected return of the UFOs

 

YES! If you saw it back in the day in its original 70mm six-track Dolby release, the sound of the winding stroke once he finally gets it loaded would rip across the theater- wild! Then there's the brace of motorized Nikon F2s and Hasselblad 500 ELMs tracking the barrage of UFOs at Devils Tower, and Melinda Dillon taking snapshots of the aliens with her Rollei 35B! As the proud teen owner of a Rollei 35S at the time, it always sorta bugged me visually that they had her use the rather ugly lesser-known 35B model instead of the iconic 35 or 35S. Eventually I figured it belonged to someone on set and they just spontaneously handed it to her for the scene (the movie was notoriously improvised).

Not to mention the Rapid 100 and even a 110 camera or so....

I had a 124 and a roll of Kodachrome X (or maybe Kodachrome 64) in about 1985 for a canoe trip.

 

I didn't want to bring an expensive camera, in case it fell in the water. The 124 was from a garage sale.

I had a 124 and a roll of Kodachrome X (or maybe Kodachrome 64) in about 1985 for a canoe trip....

 

Almost assuredly it was Kodachrome 64.

 

From Wikipedia:

 

"In 1961 Kodak released Kodachrome II with sharper images and faster ASA speeds at 25 ASA.[21] In 1962, Kodachrome-X at ASA 64 was introduced. In 1974, with the transition to the K-14 process, Kodachrome II and Kodachrome-X were replaced by Kodachrome 25 and Kodachrome 64.[22]"

I had a 124 and a roll of Kodachrome X (or maybe Kodachrome 64) in about 1985 for a canoe trip.

 

I didn't want to bring an expensive camera, in case it fell in the water. The 124 was from a garage sale.

 

That is EXACTLY the circumstance of the photo I posted. I had just bought my first Pentax ME and hadn’t yet improvised the .50 cal. ammo can for taking it on the river trips. The little Kodak went in a ziplock bag inside a MacDonalds pickle bucket with other dry items.

In fact, one of the guys in the picture had same name and initial as you!

That was in 81 or 82 on the Eleven Point River.