Hey! Thanks for showing the battery for the number, so I can go find that one today! I just got the camera in the mail and also got some purple and orca lomo film! I also have the Pentax Auto 110 and I LOVE that little thing!! I grew up in the 70s with a camera in hand, so 110 was the stuff. I always wanted this one! A family friend had one and I thought ...." WOW, STAR TREK!!" LOL then I bought my first Pentax 35 when I was 14! :) I love shooting film! I am excited to get some back from the Dark Room I just sent off from my Pentax auto! I will make a little video to show my outcome on that camera and the films! Cheers ! PS B & H photo also sells the lomo film and I got it in the mail SUPER fast! :)
Pretty wild pictures. But you gotta get them that way, and that takes way more experience than you´d think. Got the Mark II myself, and use it with different expired stocks, always got great results. I´m not a scan guy, but I really like making slides with this camera. The Lomography Peacock X-Pro Slide 200 is pretty good when developed properly in E6, it makes nice slides. And it is so cool viewing them in that tiny projector ;)
I just acquired one. It even came in the original box! But after I loaded it up with film and started shooting, the shutter or mirror shoots into the viewfinder and stays until I wind the film. I know this is a quirky camera, but i don't think its supposed to do that. Any idea what is happenng? Or should I just bite the bullet and take it in somewhere?
Does the battery light come in in the viewfinder when you push the little red button? If not you just need batteries, if the batteries are dead the mirror will block the viewfinder.
The attraction of 110 cameras was light weight, small size, and pocketable convenience. I owned a Minolta 110 Zoom, this camera, for about a year. It fails on all three of those standards. Also, the zoom lens was, at best, average. Although you hold it flat like most 110 cameras, making it easy to hold steady, it is a handful. It's larger than many small full frame 35mm rangefinder cameras, which will give you a far better image/photo. The pricing of 110 film and its processing cost nearly as much as a 35mm roll, so there were little savings at that level. I quickly moved to a "Minox 110". This was a very high quality camera with great optics, in the same configuration as most 110 cameras. It was a fixed focal length, but in every other way far superior to the Minolta.(It's history was that Balda in Germany developed the camera for Leitz to sell as a 110 Leica. Leitz decided not to do that, so Balda roped in Minox and made the camera for them.) I took it on a few short trips as my only camera. and it performed perfectly. However, in the end, I could not accept the grainy image resulting from any significant print enlargement. I ended selling the Minolta Zoom on-line. Instead of packing peanuts, I padded the shipping container with rolls of 110 film I had stored in my freezer. The buyer of the camera was favorably surprised that the going cost of the film included was more than the camera price. (I had no further need for the film, as I planned to sell the Minox 110 package at a swap meet in a few weeks, and did.)
I just got the same camera at bookmans. I have no idea how to develop the film. Any tips or links on good videos/articles on how to accomplish this? Thanks!
Hello Tori, It would be best to get a photo lab to do it as it can be quite difficult to find the correct sized reels for the developing tanks, and then you have to use the c-41 process, unless you're using black and white film of course. If you're in the UK there are at least a copule of photo labs that can process and print for you. One is in Stockport, England and there is one (I think) near Carlisle, England. I'm afraid if you aren't in the uK you'll have to search online for labs neaer you.
![Shooting the Weirdest Film Cameras: 110, Polaroid Macro 5, and the Star Wars 35mm [Instant Shoots]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/PVZDxaKx8VY/mqdefault.jpg)
Hey! Thanks for showing the battery for the number, so I can go find that one today! I just got the camera in the mail and also got some purple and orca lomo film! I also have the Pentax Auto 110 and I LOVE that little thing!! I grew up in the 70s with a camera in hand, so 110 was the stuff. I always wanted this one! A family friend had one and I thought ...." WOW, STAR TREK!!" LOL then I bought my first Pentax 35 when I was 14! :) I love shooting film! I am excited to get some back from the Dark Room I just sent off from my Pentax auto! I will make a little video to show my outcome on that camera and the films! Cheers ! PS B & H photo also sells the lomo film and I got it in the mail SUPER fast! :)
Pretty wild pictures. But you gotta get them that way, and that takes way more experience than you´d think. Got the Mark II myself, and use it with different expired stocks, always got great results. I´m not a scan guy, but I really like making slides with this camera. The Lomography Peacock X-Pro Slide 200 is pretty good when developed properly in E6, it makes nice slides. And it is so cool viewing them in that tiny projector ;)
Thank you so much for creating such a comprehensive video, almost no content on this camera available online! So keen to test mine out :)
I have the same camera , only the issue with 110 film , it’s only 24 pictures not like 35 film 36 pictures , thank you so much for this awesome video.
I picked this up for £20, first time shooting anything other than Polaroid.
This is the inspiration for the Binoculars on Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back
So cool!!! I always anted one and just got one from eBay ... thanks for your video it helps a lot ... waiting for film to arrive!!!
I still have the one that I bought brand new when I was stationed in England in 1977-79
Muahaha I made the thumbnail☺️
I shoulda filmed you talking!
I just acquired one. It even came in the original box! But after I loaded it up with film and started shooting, the shutter or mirror shoots into the viewfinder and stays until I wind the film. I know this is a quirky camera, but i don't think its supposed to do that. Any idea what is happenng? Or should I just bite the bullet and take it in somewhere?
Does the battery light come in in the viewfinder when you push the little red button? If not you just need batteries, if the batteries are dead the mirror will block the viewfinder.
Lomo also sells film holders for 110 film✌️
Does it work well with the 200 ISO film without aperture correction? Not sure if it was meant for 100 ISO.
The attraction of 110 cameras was light weight, small size, and pocketable convenience. I owned a Minolta 110 Zoom, this camera, for about a year. It fails on all three of those standards. Also, the zoom lens was, at best, average. Although you hold it flat like most 110 cameras, making it easy to hold steady, it is a handful. It's larger than many small full frame 35mm rangefinder cameras, which will give you a far better image/photo. The pricing of 110 film and its processing cost nearly as much as a 35mm roll, so there were little savings at that level. I quickly moved to a "Minox 110". This was a very high quality camera with great optics, in the same configuration as most 110 cameras. It was a fixed focal length, but in every other way far superior to the Minolta.(It's history was that Balda in Germany developed the camera for Leitz to sell as a 110 Leica. Leitz decided not to do that, so Balda roped in Minox and made the camera for them.) I took it on a few short trips as my only camera. and it performed perfectly. However, in the end, I could not accept the grainy image resulting from any significant print enlargement. I ended selling the Minolta Zoom on-line. Instead of packing peanuts, I padded the shipping container with rolls of 110 film I had stored in my freezer. The buyer of the camera was favorably surprised that the going cost of the film included was more than the camera price. (I had no further need for the film, as I planned to sell the Minox 110 package at a swap meet in a few weeks, and did.)
I just got the same camera at bookmans. I have no idea how to develop the film. Any tips or links on good videos/articles on how to accomplish this? Thanks!
Hello Tori, It would be best to get a photo lab to do it as it can be quite difficult to find the correct sized reels for the developing tanks, and then you have to use the c-41 process, unless you're using black and white film of course. If you're in the UK there are at least a copule of photo labs that can process and print for you. One is in Stockport, England and there is one (I think) near Carlisle, England. I'm afraid if you aren't in the uK you'll have to search online for labs neaer you.
@@seanperry8803 You can buy a tank that does 110 on BH