Help With Kodak Instamatic 233

[pauliventi]

just found my mums 233 and trying to find film at a reasonable price. frugalphotographer has Solaris FG200-24 126 for $10 a roll. Im in Australia so that is very expensive. ive read about using 35mm in it but i need the carts first. any advice

 

[nickrapak]

just found my mums 233 and trying to find film at a reasonable price. frugalphotographer has Solaris FG200-24 126 for $10 a roll. Im in Australia so that is very expensive. ive read about using 35mm in it but i need the carts first. any advice

126 film is no longer made anywhere. Your only option other than the (not-so)Frugal Photographer is the suspicious stock on ePay.

 

[railwayman3]

126 film is no longer made anywhere. Your only option other than the (not-so)Frugal Photographer is the suspicious stock on ePay.

Althought 126 film is 35mm wide, it is quite different to that used in 35mm cameras, having different perforations, a square picture size, and uses a numbered backing paper in a double-cartridge arrangement.

I've read of some people using 35mm film, or cutting other film to size, to "reload" a cartridge, but it's a very fiddly darkroom procedure. If you just want to try out the camera once, perhaps splash out on a single fresh roll.

Developing to negative should be OK as the width is the same as a standard 35mm, but you might have difficulty in finding a lab who can still print this size of neg optically. (Perhaps you could scan the negs..... )

 

[Alex Bishop-Thorpe]

Frugal Photographer is your best bet sadly - I'm located in Adelaide and it's the cheapest I've been able to find, ebay is usually a fair bit more expensive. I've been looking at getting some too, so if I find another source I'll be sure to let you know. I came into half a dozen used cartridges of it from when my older sister was a child, and my local lab had no problem developing them for me, but printing I'll have to do myself.

 

[Ektagraphic]

You can try to reload the cartridges with 35mm film as 116 is 35mm without sprocket holes. I think you will just need to reload one of the carts that you have now. I don't think you'll find any more.

 

[railwayman3]

You can try to reload the cartridges with 35mm film as 116 is 35mm without sprocket holes. I think you will just need to reload one of the carts that you have now. I don't think you'll find any more.

Not sure it's quite that easy...126 has a series of single sprocket holes which some cameras use for frame spacing and counting. Also the cartridge has a central hole in the back for frame numbering, so you need to use backing paper. Quite a complicated system.

 

[mwdake]

I read an article online a few weeks ago about this but can't remember the excat site.
It explained the problems about frame spacing and how some cameras don't mind and others do and it gave solutions for both.

Try these 2 google searches to get you startd, one has a YouTube video showing how to do it.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=loading+35mm+in+126+cartridges&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=using+35mm+in+126+cameras&aq=f&oq=&aqi=


good luck

 

[pauliventi]

still confused. if 126 film is no longer made anywhere is the film on frugal photographer legit?

 

[Alex Bishop-Thorpe]

It is, it's just from what is supposedly the last production run. A production run is in the order of tens of thousands of rolls of film, so there's still stock on the market.