square 110 film prints

[Ces1um]

Hi there,
I'm thinking about buying the Diana baby 110 camera and as I understand it, it takes a square photo. Just out of curiosity, when they are actually printed on photo paper, are they printed out on a square or on a 4 by 6 with black letter boxing? I don't have a lab around me that can print them so I'd have to send them off to lomography for printing. Does anyone have any experience with this?

 

[BAK61]

110 film always gave a square print. That being said, 110 is still disappointing. Even the new 110 films. 110 cameras, IMHO, are only good for short distances. The cameras themselves were touted as pocketable, which made them appealing. The image quality was never that good. There is an exception though. The Pentax Auto 100 is an SLR that uses 110 film. Check them out on E-Bay.

 

[MattKing]

110 film always gave a square print.

Actually, a 110 negative (or slide) has an image area of 13mm x 17mm, which yields a rectangular print with a roughly 4:5 aspect ratio. There were a lot of prints on 3.5" paper, so the prints were approximately 3.5" x 4.5" in size.

 

[Ces1um]

That being said, 110 is still disappointing. never that good. There is an exception though. The Pentax Auto 100 is an SLR that uses 110 film.

I ended up buying the Pentax Auto 110. The camera is quite nice but unfortunately the whole experience has still been disappointing. The backing paper on the film often has pinhole light leaks. Also because the Pentax autoselects the iso at (if I remember correctly) 80 iso as "low" and "400" as high the only colour 110 film manufacturer has decided to make 200 iso film. So all my shots are overexposed by the stop and some change. Often the prints are fine but scans have to be adjusted. It's a fun camera but it's a system best left in the past IMO.

 

[ic-racer]

My experience is that 16mm still cameras are easier to use than 110 and can give excellent results.

 

[Ces1um]

Always wanted to try 16mm but didn't want to have to cut my own film

 

[Agulliver]

I've never seen square prints or negs from a 110 camera. As stated they are 13x17mm which makes for a 4:5 aspect ratio, slightly different to 35mm but still an oblong rectangle.

I had a pocket 110 camera for a short while as a child but much preferred the Minolta 110 zoom SLR which was actually quite good. The only issue was the lack of a decent pressure plate in the system could sometimes make the film appear slightly out of focus for landscape shots. Nonetheless I took some decent pics with that camera before the shutter developed a fault.

I would think that the format's shortcomings are potentially it's charms as an instrument of Lomography.

 

[AgX]

There is an exception though. The Pentax Auto 100 is an SLR that uses 110 film. Check them out on E-Bay.

There was another SLR too, and a lot of variations amongst the resting cameras.

I am very pleased with the quality of some 8x10 prints from even a simple 110 camera.

 

[darkroommike]

Minolta also made 110 SLR's both models came with zoom lenses, I have a first model (somewhere) and it took rather nice photos, the second model looks more like the Pentax 110 SLR and had a more conventional control layout. I don't consider any 110 or 126 camera as a precision instrument since neither has a pressure plate to keep the film flat.

 

[BAC1967]

If you want grainy photos then 110 is the way to go. It's not my go-to camera but I do enjoy using my Minolta 110.

Minolta 110 Zoom SLR by Bryan Chernick, on Flickr

This was shot with Kodacolor Gold 200 film 25 years past the expiration date. I used the exposure compensation switch at +2 to compensate for the films lost sensitivity, that's one nice feature this camera has.
Magnolia by Bryan Chernick, on Flickr

 

[benveniste]

Hi there,
I'm thinking about buying the Diana baby 110 camera and as I understand it, it takes a square photo.

You may be thinking of 126 (original Instamatic), which was a square format.

 

[Agulliver]

Yep, that's the Minolta 110 SLR that I have...though it developed a shutter issue over 30 years ago which has never been fixed.

 

[sfaber17]

Always wanted to try 16mm but didn't want to have to cut my own film

Minolta 16s work fine with 16mm movie film. No cutting.

 

[darkroommike]

Minolta 16s work fine with 16mm movie film. No cutting.

Unless your Minolta 16 takes 100 ft. rolls (and wouldn't that be something!), you cut film to length to reload the cartridges. Not to be confused with slitting film down from wider formats like 120 or 35mm. A 100 ft. roll of film lasts a long time and single perf is preferred to double perf, although with the earlier Minolta models it made no difference.