Someone will know better but i do think the perfs get into frame on 110.
The image area on 110 is offset slightly; if you load the perfs on the correct edge of the film it won't intrude in your image area. Whether you can do this and have your camera function correctly, however, depends on the camera; some use the stop finger to cock the shutter as well as stop the film advance; for those, you have to load the perfs to ride over the stop finger, and live with covering the lens and firing to advance
four times per frame.
Just from pics online the K battery was short and fat right? Might have better luck taping together some 3v lithium watch style batteries +\- spacers.
I want to get a Minolta 16 QT and/or MG-S. Are cds meters pretty likely to be still working? I’d typically try to avoid selenium metered cameras like the regular MG but figure that these types of cameras are more likely to have been little used and spent their lives in cases (vs other selenium meter cameras).
The AAA cells are about 19mm shorter than the K battery -- overall length is 64+ mm, as I recall, while AAA are 45+. AAAA are the cells inside a 9V transistor battery; same length as AAA, I think, but about 1/3 smaller. If I can't make AAA work, AAAA is the backup plan. I might even be able to fabricate a drop-in battery case for 3xAAAA cells to run that camera.
The CdS cell in a QT is likely to still work, but in the one I have, the rest of the electronics appear to have failed -- I shelled out good money for a fresh 3V lithium cell the correct dimension to replace the 2-cell 3V mercury battery originally specified, but nothing worked even so, no lights, no needle movement. If you get one with good electronics, it should be possible to either fake a mount for a CR2032 or dig through Google and find the cell size for that lithium cell that will run that camera. The MGs uses the same selenium cell setup as the MG, as I recall.
Donald; would an N size 1.5v alkaline fit better? They are shorter than AAA but I'm not sure about the diameter.
No reason to need an N size here -- length isn't the fitment issue, it's diameter (2xAAA is almost a millimeter over the size of the K shell, which might or might not cause a problem in the camera).
With regards to the Kodak’s K battery I saw this on a Flickr post
“The Kodak Pocket Instamatic 60 takes a "K" battery which is no longer made. To make a replacement battery I taped three #357 button cells together and added aluminum metallic tape to the positive end to make contact with the camera. See subsequent photos for details. Verify that the camera is working by half-pressing the shutter and seeing if the aperture opens up in low light.”
Yep, I saw that. I'm after something that will be easier to find, cheaper, and have longer life than button cells. AAAA cells have more than three times the internal volume (=> chemistry capacity) of 357 button cells, AAA are bigger still. And I can buy AAA in regulated lithium form, if I'm willing to spend way too much to get absolute maximum battery life.
