richard_campbell1

I used www.retropotographic.com for 126 cartridges a few months ago and live in the UK!

I've only just found some time to loading the camera up. I took a couple of shots last

weekend. Next task is finding a good developer! let me know if you find any (Developers that

is).

Richard

Awesome, just ordered some 126 Instamatic so now I'll have a go at cleaning the camera

up. As I'm in the UK I decided to go for a company over here to save on shipping. 10

cartridges for ?16. (Guessing around $32).

I've taken all your points on regarding the colouring of the photo's being an ageing quality.

I guess the nice thing for me now is just to take photo's of my little nephew on the same

camera my dad used when I was a little one - and to have an old film format instead of a

digital file! I have also discovered that my dad originally gave this camera to my mum for

her 21st birthday.

Michael, (I never thought I'd ever be saying this) 'your Brun looks very similar to mine'.

http://www.photo.net/photo/6607254

Right,

Firstly thanks people, really helpful. I've raided my parents loft and even though they said

they didn't have the camera anymore... they did! So I have managed to get my hands on

the original beast. It's a 'Boots Pakmatic' made by 'Braun' I think. Not much on the net

about them it appears and no manual but I'm convinced it's a 126 cartridge. I believe from

reading up on the net that this film can be developed by quite a few places, due to it being

35mm high, however fewer companies can make prints from it. So scanning will be the

way forward. I have a flatbed epson 2400 with a transparency function - I shall give this

baby a whirl as everything looks to be in working order.

Many thanks for you help.

I think I made a mistake in my initial question. I cheld the film up against some 35mm film

and noticed they were the same height. so I think each exposure is probably around 28 x

28mm which with some quick net research would tally it with Michael's thought of it being

126 Instamatic. sorry for the 40 x 40mm error.

Further to this, If I lay my hands on an old instamatic camera and a 126 cartridge do you

think I will be able to produce the same sort of result as my dad did 27 years ago? Or do

you think the quality of film has developed and colour saturation will now be better. All

the old photo's I came across had quite a muted level of saturation (Pobably helped and

influenced by the brown curtains, carpet and sofa!).

Again, Many thanks

Over the weekend I came across a stack of photo's from my childhood. Born in 1980 these photo's hold a

nostalgic quality that I believe today's digital/film quality wont replicate. Therefore I am trying to identify

this film and then hopefully a compatible camera for reproducing this nostalgic quality/format for the

next generation of my family.

The negatives and photos are a square format, each exposure measuring around 40 x 40mm. Unlike

35mm negatives this only has one punched out hole beneath each exposure. The edges of the exposures

haven't got sharp straight edges and in-between each exposure is what appears to be an over exposed

block/blob dividing each photo.

Any thoughts would be gratefully received.