110/16mm Camera Image Quality

Bronson Dugnutt

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Certainly not a Pizza Hut.

A few more frames from that sonic cassette. Most of the non-close-up shots were taken with a yellow filter IIRC.



I picked up some Fuji HR-21 (expiry 2004) recently. Typical microfilm characteristics, effectively the same as ImageLink but I've only developed about 8 inches of it so far.

Minolta MG-s, 25cm close-up lens, copy stand
1/30s shutter priority, meter @ 50 w/ 2 stop ND filter in place
Fuji HR-21, D-19 reversal 3'



No Tasco 8000 yet, but I'm hoping the film advance is 'flexible' enough to handle reloaded carts and that my diopter lens set has sufficient diameter for use on the taking lens. The fixed focus on this camera is somewhere between hyperfocal and infinity but distances of ~0.3-1m might be achievable with aux lenses.
 

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Huss said:
Agreed!
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I'm not shooting 110 for it's compatibility and ease of use these days. Bring on the stupid cameras. A buddy of mine had a rocket that took 110 film back in the 90's. I wonder if I can dig one up somewhere.
 

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I need to dig the Rollei back out. Seems I am shooting only a roll a year in it at this point. Shame. Not that I get any good images with it but it is fun. The Fuji microfilm works pretty good too. Not as harsh as the Kodak I've tried. I do have a roll of Agfa but like most things I haven't got around to it yet. I do still have some rolls of 110 sitting around. I was going to use the Kodak Ektramax I have but the last roll I put through it didn't index the frames correctly so it was a waste.

Rollei E110, Fuji Super HR, Rodinal

 

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Cholentpot said:
A buddy of mine had a rocket that took 110 film back in the 90's.
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Estes sold those for many years. They replaced the old one that used film cut into a circle after 110 came out, and were in turn replaced by a digital in the early 2000s. Astrocam, Astrocam 110, and I don't recall what they called the tool of the devil.
 

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AstroCam110!

My buddy had one. His father was a dentist...hmmm. Makes sense.
 

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Did you crash and burn or glide gracefully back to earth?
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He's floating around out there somewhere I'm sure.

And to get back on target (badum Crash!)

I put a roll through a Minolta 16P, and while it felt plasticky and unsubstantial the negatives look fine. I'll post them up later.
 

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After I saw this, I just had to find a copy of the Viscawide 16... and I did. No user manual online that I can find, but I think I figured out the sequence of use, but would you confirm?


Turn the film advance CC to advance film (and cock internal shutter?), rotate circular knob on top clockwise to cock the swing lens, press the shutter button near the frame counter to fire the capping shutter and then pull back on the swing lens trigger on the right hand side to take an exposure.

Is this it?

Thanks!

EDIT: OK, I don't think there is an internal shutter. That button on the back right side appears to be just a frame counter reset... maybe.

Also looks like the slow speed setting on this camera is not functioning correctly.
 
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Someone offered to sell me a Viscawide 16 on here a while back and then never got back to me. I was a bit bummed. I want one.
 

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A film advance via the knurled knob is required to trip the interlock that allows the lens to be cocked. This is the worst part IMHO, I must need to de-felt my cassettes.

The tiny button is just a film counter reset. The slow speed setting engages some sort of retard mechanism that may require exercise, heat, or a CLA to free up.
 
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OK after intense digging around I found an obscure video from Japan where a guy absolutely destroys a Viscawide 16 during disassembly but shows the internal workings.


Since the commentary is in Japanese, I had to infer a lot from his hand movements and the actual disassembly, but it was plenty instructive anyway.

Seems the swing-lens assembly has a small brass puck under the cover that has (what appears to be) a rubber tire, much like a capstan on a reel-to-reel audio tape recorder, only thin. This is what engages the slow speed retard mechanism of reduction gears for the lower speed when you flip the lever to "S". The spring that drives the lens rotation is a couple of coils of simple spring steel.

(I will add that if you want to take the top off of the camera, be aware some of the screws are Left-hand thread, so take care!)

So it is probably a combination of a hardened rubber roller, perhaps wear on the tire and a dirty slow speed retard mechanism.

Otherwise, the camera is a fairly simple mechanism EXCEPT for the lens assembly. After watching him destroy it getting it apart, there is no way would ever touch that assembly.

The neat trick this camera has is a self capping slit that allows the slit to open in one direction and close back shut when you wind the lens to fire. Very ingenious!
 
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Cholentpot said:
I'm not shooting 110 for it's compatibility and ease of use these days. Bring on the stupid cameras. A buddy of mine had a rocket that took 110 film back in the 90's. I wonder if I can dig one up somewhere.
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There was an unbuilt kit on shopgoodwill a couple weeks ago the Estes kit from the 80s.
I missed out an forgot to bid / got outbid. D'oh!
You can buy rocket engines at Hobby Lobby. I picked up a pack, still have my old rockets, gonna entertain the nieces sometime.
 

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For some reason the local PD is fine with fireworks but draws the line at rocketry. They always show up, and then take in the launch and leave. Even got a countdown on the bullhorn once.
 
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