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spirals for 110

pellicle

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Hi

just wondering if there are any for this? thinking of playing with a Pentax 110 SLR camera and I see that there still are a few suppliers of 110 film in black and white.

anyone have any experience with this?

perhaps I should leave my little desk ornament as just that
 
Jobo once made type 110 reels for their 1000 series. But you may modify a 35mm reel. There have been postings about that here.
 
I used to have a stainless steel reel for 110. It fit a standard tank and had the spiral only on one side.
 
They still make the developing skirts for 35mm, just cut one down for the 110, and use a single reel 35mm tank. You could also try to find a 16mm set-up, same size film.

Rick
 
I have an old Johnson plastic tank which takes 16mm, 35mm and 120 film. 16mm works fine for 110 film. Worked great until I gave my old 110 camera away.
Any tank for 16mm film should work, I have seen a few on Ebay.

 
I see that there still are a few suppliers of 110 film in black and white.
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Where do you find that? I thought Kodak color print was the last thing available.
 
In the absence of a reel, we used to tape the film around the outside of a metal orange juice can. The seams on the metal can kept the film from binding too close to the can. IIRC, we did it emulsion side toward the can. The whole array fit into a SS tank.
 
I have a half dozen or so of brand new SS 110 reels, don't know if its economical to mail one to you.
 
pellicle said:
photoimpex in Germany (and I'm in Finland)
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I just did a precursory search of Fotoimpex's site, and I can't find any 110 film. Do you have a link?
 
nickrapak said:
I just did a precursory search of Fotoimpex's site, and I can't find any 110 film. Do you have a link?
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I normally ring them, but its in their catalog (pdf) ... mine's from last year, so they could have dropped it. I use skype out btw so the call is about 10c
 
Hi

fotch said:
I have a half dozen or so of brand new SS 110 reels, don't know if its economical to mail one to you.
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as it happens I'm preparing to move back to Australia, so I'll get "looks" if more stuff in packages comes in the door. If the offer still stands later in the year I'll ask again and if you are prepared to sell one to me (I'll pay postage) then we can send one to Australia
 
Hi

nickrapak said:
Yeah, but that's just color neg. I'm looking for the B&W film that the OP mentioned.
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because my catalog is in German I didn't read it carefully ... just ran it through translate

Farbfilm mit sehr gutem Belichtungsspielraum
und ausgezeichneter Farbtreue. Sehr
feinkörnig. Das Format 110 (Pocket Format)
bietet einen Film, der einfach einzulegen ist,
da die komplette Filmführung bereits in die
Filmpatrone eingearbeitet wurde. Die Kamera
muss nur noch Linse spielen. Daher ein beliebtes
Filmformat für Toy Kameras aus den
70ern und 80ern.
24 knallbunte Bilder pro Film.

and got:

Color film with very good exposure latitude
and excellent color fidelity. Very
fine grained. The format 110 (Pocket size)
provides a film that is easy to insert,
since the entire film guides already in the
Film cartridge has been incorporated. The camera
must play only lens. Therefore, a popular
Toy cameras from film format for the
70s and 80s.
24 colorful images per film.

so its colour I'm sorry ....
 
Assuming you did find some B&W 110 Film, The Film itself is 16mm Wide and there are a few choices in Tanks.

The older Yankee Chipper II tanks will adjust to 16mm.
Many of the Jobo Tanks will adjust to 16mm
Jobo made a 16mm Reel for the 1500 series tanks, you can sometimes find them.
There are lots of 16mm Stainless reels out there, you would use 2 of them in place of a 35mm reel in a normal Stainless tank.

Of course any of these would also work for C-41 to do the 110 Colour film.

The negatives are small, you may want to use a 35mm Lens on the enlarger.
 
Hint. when using the 16mm/110 stainless steel reels with a single metal spiral, load the film emulsion OUT. The reverse curl holds the film on the reel with more even spacing between the film spirals. Loading the 'normal' way sometimes causes the film to jump out of the spiral.
 
nice hint
 
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