You were bringing back a lot of memories I live in Rochester New York and worked at Kodak for many years and the popularity of these cameras back then that particular building used to work three shifts seven days a week to keep up with demand the section I worked in was emulsion melting and also I worked in paper coating
I remember waiting to have film developed as a kid at the local drug store, it would take a week and you never knew what was going to come back. I also remember the vacuum tube testers because depending on the TV you had it was either a few or a whole box of them you had to plug in.
Been a while, glad to see you going down electronics memory lane again. I'm old enough to remember things like tube color TVs with round picture tubes and I used to repair them for fun and profit from the mid 70s to early 90s when it was no longer worth the effort.
My first TV was a 12" B&W... THen we got a 10" color TV with a cable box bigger than the TV itself. The 80s were fun. By 1989 we had a 25" color TV and livin' large. :P To think that a 32" LCD is 'small' today.
@@Canthus13 The first color TV we had I bought for myself with my berry picking money I saved up all summer and bought a used 69 Zenith color 23" TV in the summer of 74. I paid 115 bucks for it and had it put in my bedroom. Step dad didn't want to buy a color tv but I wanted one so I got it with the money I earned.
you know lomography sells a triple pack of fresh color negative film for $25? not sure why you paid so much for expired film. 110 doesn't age very well at all
haha i was gonna comment this exactly! i just recently bought that same film 3-pack for my own recently-acquired tele-elektralite 600. looking forward to taking some cool car photos with it.
I can't speak to how old film takes pictures but I can confirm that exposed film that has sat around not processed for multiple decades does develop just fine.
I enjoyed the heck out of this episode! My parents used the Kodak 126 film cartridge format, but it was largely the same as the 110 format except for size. Me? I used old-fashioned 35mm roll film. My parents thought THAT was fiddly, ridiculous and old-fashioned. LOL! I hope you can get that film processed somehow. Back in the early ‘00s, they even stopped processing 35mm here in Hawai’i (!), which I thought was ludicrous. When the Wolf’s Camera Store went out of business here (as did all the brick-and-mortar stores), I snapped up 151 rolls of old Ektachrome, Kodachrome, and Fujichrome slide film (my favorites, all of them). Took loads of snaps, naturally. I paid…the Moon, essentially…for all that processing, lol! Wouldn’t you know it? The slide film scanner I was using broke down in the middle of the job…and I’ve STILL not replaced it. So…yeah…I miss my film cameras, but I’m a died-in-the-wool digital photographer, for sure! Aloha!
C-41 print film can still be developed. You might even be able to develop Ektachrome/Fujichrome and other E-6 process transparencies. But Kodachrome is dead. The last place where it could be processed closed years ago. (I don't think another has opened.) It involved a very toxic process. I still have a few rolls of Kodachrome II 35mm, and a few rolls of 100ft 16mm movie film....
@@Backroad_Junkie Yes! The Walmarts here still develop C-41. Perhaps it’s thanks to the folks who buy those brightly-colored fashion cameras the stores sell now. Towards the end of my film journey, I was even buying C-41 process B&W film! You’d think people like taking film shots here in Hawai’i and that would be sufficient grounds to have E-6 B&W as well as C-41, but that’s sadly the state of things. It was FUN while it lasted even when I had to send the last Kodachrome, Velvia and Ektachrome rolls to the mainland. The anticipation was kinda fun. Also, if you live here or a place like Florida, you have to use lots of desiccant: my camera lenses and even the inside of a film scanner will grow mold in them quickly and profusely. Please enjoy…looking(?)…at those rolls of 35mm slide film. It saddens me to hear that even 16mm movie film doesn’t seem to be processed anymore. I sympathize with your plight. Take care and aloha to you.
There was a Kodak Disc 110 camera, back in the 80's too. I got one for may parents, for their holiday, it was a great camera. I was into (film) photography, with my Olympus Om-10 out fit. I did'nt develop my photos, as I didn't have a dark room, so paid to get them developed, in a few days. Great fun waiting to see them. Great video showing how we used older equipment. Love from Scotland 5* :D
Hi, I was given a new disc camera in @ 1984, only took 2 or 3 sets of film, as they were sort of very grainy compared to the 110/126 I dont even know what happened to it, it was left in my old room at my parents home. Things started disappearing ( thrown out ) and eventually the 6 drawer desk and my bed went as well
@@charlesbridgford254 Often the reason why the pics were so blurry, grainy was because the local processor didn't get the special 6 element lens from Kodak they needed for Disc film processing. Instead opting to use the standard 3 element lens that could cover 35mm, 126, and 110. i.e. cheaper less cumbersome to deal with for processor.. So everyone got poor results. I remember my friend getting one of those disc cameras for Christmas one year, 84/85' maybe. I think I remember him using it maybe a dozen times. It only took 15 pics per disc.. Seemed over priced for so few pics. But I never brought any film or processed it, so maybe it was cheaper to buy and process than 24 exposure 126/110 film? But I do remember the processed film coming back with a special contact print and thinking that was neat in the 80's kind of way.
I was 16 , went to the Drug Store and bought one. It was the newest thing going at the time. (Yes I'm very old.) I loved that camera. Used it for years. I used Clack Photo Labs to have the film developed, and they you free film back with your pic's.
I loved the Kodak 110 growing up! What a great "inexpensive" camera!! Always fun to try to find the best cheapest place to get it developed. Tried it once myself in high school....what a mess!!
I have on older camera than that. It's a Kodak pocket instamatic 20, brand new in the original box, it even has the instruction manual and warranty card. Has a roll of Kodacolor II C110-12 that expired in Feb 1974, lol. (I'm pretty sure I have a couple extra rolls of film around.) No batteries, it used a "Magicube", a self-firing AG1 type bulb. (The box is missing that valuable flash cube...) One of the fascinating things about 110, was the cartridge itself curved the focal plane of the film, to better correct for the crappy optics. I used a Pocket Instamatic 50 for a couple of years. Then I graduated to 35mm, and that was that! 😁
My family had a Kodak 110 camera in the 70's, but it used flash cubes (I don't think built-in battery powered flashes were a thing until the mid to late 80's for the 110 camera).
A younger version of me could hear the high pitched tone of the flash charging up on cameras like this. Some had a “ready” light for the flash, I just waited for the tone to stop. Wish I still had that hearing. Thanks for this flashback, no pun intended. ~ Chuck
I had one like that!! That 110 film brings back so many memories. I wish we had digital back in the day... the pictures I took with my 110 film were not exactly the best 😅
I was about to say that my late grandparents had one of these, but in the research I was able to do online, theirs was actually an Ektralite 500, which had a tiny yellow button within the shutter button which was used to turn on the flash (I think it timed out after a while if you didn't take a picture), and a flip cover which could be used as a handle.
I still have my mom's that she got in 1979, then she bought me a vivitar 110 in 1982 that I still have. I still have use both recently and still take good pictures for what it is. I'm glad Lomography is still making film for it.
I have a pair of Vivitar 110 cameras. Mine have a telephoto lens option. One of my Vivitar cameras is actually motorized which is not that common for a 110 camera.
I never had one of those. The one I had, I bought at a small town drug store with Mr paper route money. It was a lot smaller and the lens and view finder cover doubled as the film winder. Cool trip down memory lane, JR. Thank you!
Man, I worked in photo labs through the 90’s. 110 made us all cringe. It was great on one hand for people that couldn’t load film. But on the flip side, the negative size was so small you could only get okay-ish 3.5x5 in prints. God help you if you had one that you wanted to enlarge one in any way.
Thanks for the trip back in time. I hope you develop the film and show us the pictures. When I was the high school photographer, I used a Graphix 4X5 camera and developed my own pictures, nice quality pictures, but a lot of work.
I remember going to the local chemist "Pharmacy" here in the UK on a sat to drop of my films for developing. Where was the common place for developing in the USA ?. We still like to have pictures hanging around the house so i have printed with inkjet photoprinters for the last 15yrs or so. Problem is the pictures fade with age.
In the USA CVS pharmacy still advertises the heck out of photo processing. I worked at a law firm for awhile and you'd be surprised how many actual photographs they use. I'm guessing some people still want to see an actual photograph in court.
@@Cartier_specialist I wonder if there are judges that only want "official" photos only. No fancy still video pictures you take on those pocket cameras everyone has these days! ;) I wonder what would happen if the federal and state law/judicial agencies decided they would only accept print and film as official records and not "virtual" digital images. Suddenly there would be a boom to print and film.
If found inkjet dyes are terrible. Starts fading within a couple of months, even if you put the prints behind glass. I switched over to a printer that uses pigment ink, and I can leave those in bright sunlight all day with no ill effects. Drug stores were your traditional place to get film developed, but any camera store would also do it. There used to be stand alone little buildings called, "Fotomat" that developed film. Look it up. Hard to describe the little buildings that weren't much bigger than an outhouse, lol.
@@Backroad_Junkie The scene in Back to The Future where the terrorists are chasing Marty in the DeLorean in a VW Bus. After the DeLorean jumps to the past the The Libyans swerve and crash into a Fotomat, a Fox Photo stand. Fox Photo was bought out by Kodak the following year. People outside the U.S. probably thought it was a in-joke reference to Michael J Fox. But it was a real business up to that time, who probably paid for the placement.
HA! Mine had the cube flash that had four flashes in it. It also came with an extender to have the cube be a couple inches higher up to help from "red eye" in your pics! Memories man....
Probably on the next 110 film camera I do.Might be a bit, I've only taken 3 pictures with it so far. Crazy how much more careful you are with film exposures! 📸
I'm old enough to remember the tail end of the film era, but it's still crazy to think just how much more of a hassle film was compared to digital. Oh, and for what it's worth, Lomography still sells (fresh) 110 film!
@@m.k.8158 Yes, I mean you use them once and throw them away afterwards. I do remember the flash cubes having four sides and the camera rotating the cube as you advanced the film. Does anyone make single use flash cubes, or just flash bulbs anymore? That sound they always use in movies with 30s or 40s era photographers taking pics of the crime scene or perp walk etc. Did they truly make that sound? I don't remember the cubes making any sound other that the camera making it's 'click' sound. But then again, by the time I started taking pics myself as a middle grade student in art class, (mid 80s) they had battery powered flashes. But I remember the older single use ones adults used when I was in single digits for my age.
I think i had basically that same camera, but it was blue with rugged rubber grips and a lanyars, it was fischer price brand but im pretty sure it was made by kodak with fischer price putting the finishing touches on it.
Cool video! I had a red one of those in the late 80s. Good camera for a beginner. I replaced it with a basic Kodak 35mm camera, which lasted until I moved to digital.
Hey JR! Excellent content and information! It looks like you’re using a lav mic but I’m not sure I’m hearing it. I think a bump in audio quality would be great for immersion. Truly great stuff and I hope I am not “that guy” on RUclips…
Kodak finally learned. The original Kodak 110 cameras used the K-battery, a unique battery, made by Kodak, and of course no longer made which makes most old Kodak Pocket Instamatics totally useless. Kodak finally listened to customer complaints, and this more recent 110 camera uses AA batteries. Yay.
@@TechThrowback I did not. I bought it when I was in Okinawa Japan. With it being 20+ years old, I wasn’t confident that the seals would work. But I can DM you on IG some photos I took with some expired film and some red scale film
In the age of film cameras it wasn't that uncommon for popular models to stay in production for decades - just from memory, the Pentax K-1000, Nikon FM-2, Nikon F3, Canon F-1 and Zenit E all had production runs of around 20 years. That's not counting the fact that some models were pretty minor upgrades to previous ones, so if you rolled, say, the Nikon FM and FM-2 together you'd get an even longer run. It's only really since the use of electronics became widespread in the camera industry that upgrade cycles have shortened, a process which accelerated dramatically with the introduction of digital cameras, though thankfully, that seems to be slowing a little as the technology matures.
My hometown rochester new york. Kodak were very proud of their products and everything was stamped with made in rochester new york u s a.. I can't say that today. By the way opening a fresh bag of cassette film released a particular aroma. As a kid I love that smell kind of like mimiograph fluid.
110 comments, I feel like I'm ruining the appropriate comment number for a 110 film camera by commenting but so be it. The Ektralite 10 was pretty much the only camera my parents used in the 1980s and I kind of wish they'd used a 35mm camera instead since the majority of my childhood photos lack detail compared to photos taken when relatives visited from Britain since they all seemed to shoot with 35mm. The irony is that my father had a 35mm Konica camera but rarely used it.
I don't remember who made it, but my 110 used disposable stick flashes. How far we've come. Too bad Kodak invented the digital camera in the 70s, but chose to stick with film for far too long...
Hey, just as a public service announcement, everyone should check their old pictures and negatives. Most are at the end of their lifespan. (By that I mean the color dyes are at the end of their lifespan and will start to fade, if they haven't already.) Even Kodachrome is nearing it's end-of-life. If you want to save them, you should probably start digitizing. (This doesn't apply to B&W/silver halide prints/negatives. Only color.)
Although these camera's were small and convenient and easy to load and fun to use, they are crap. Fixed focus lens is not a good thing and to a real professional camera coinsurer they are junk. That is why you can get them cheap or free. The downfall to these camera's is they quit making film for them, unless you find new old stock on eBay. I dabbled in photography and it's really a shame that with digital photography it makes all of the old camera's obsolete, time marches on, goodbye small 110 cameras and Vhs tapes and cassette tapes and home phones that hung on your wall, etc, etc, etc. Nice throwback and always fun to see. 😀✌❤
Don't confuse professional equipment with consumer level equipment. Don't be an elitist. They may have been less than ideal but they kept Agfa, Kodak, Fuji and other film/paper companies in business for years. They produced more family color photos in the 70's and 80's than anything else. The consumer formats (126, 110, disc) gave the masses an entry-level price point that everyone wanted. If you look at many old photo albums, say from your parents, most of those photos were taken with these types of cameras.
Thanks for the Video ❣️ i recently found the 600 Version camera of my beloved grandpa who sadly passed away in spring and tbh, i had no clue of how it works but have the wish to capture the world through his lense ☺️ i just did my first picture and am so excited for the results.
Honestly I think this format is either for rich people or for hobbyists who are willing to reload and develop their own film😅 It's way to expensive to do the normal way.
Nice. Mum had something like this, Don't think a kodak, could have been, more shiney. Not all black. Early holiday abroad videos 1980-82 done on it. Into 35mm nicer proper change lens camera after that 80's holidays. Dad got into it and did a local town where we lie camera club. Nice cheap film if acual got from the shop for $2. Then you said. Someone did well and not even pay $2. What a rip off. Old film. rubbing their hands the seller!. Still hard to find now then, newest 2006. Guess you never used as intended, develop. Guess nothing do now or if so a dear price. Bet someone take it apart ina dark rom, Do the thing themself taking out the housingand get a fixed negative with the deleloping thing. Scan on computer and turn to colour. always a way. Someone would. Nice to see this old camera, No photos, thought might come at the end. Too dear to do or if can at all!. Nice video.
I had a Kodak Ektra 12. It was the worst piece of junk ever. One could take photos only when the sun was shining. It had no flash, you had to use very expensive single use flashes.
The camera wasn't good. It was cheap. The film was complete garbage and looked like someone took pictures with 640x480 and blew them up to poster size. I have albums full of 110 pics and they're worse than old VHS on a 4k screen.
Back then, cheap was good. A decent 35mm body would cost about $250+, not including a lens. If all you wanted were some family snapshots, then an entry level $30 camera was good, lol. Shutter speed? Focus? f-stops? Entry level cameras cured all that. 😁
@@Backroad_Junkie Yeah. but now my parents have thousands of photos of a group of blobs that might or might not be us. What really sucks is that the old kodak brownies were originally designed to hit a low price point that anyone could afford... and they pretty much disappeared by the 60s.
@@Canthus13 I still have my 126 Brownie! 😁 But you still had to *load* film. I worked in a camera store in the 70's (in high school). Photography to the masses was a nightmare. The new cameras, you just had to drop in a cartridge and start shooting! You might want to try to rescan some of those old negatives (if it's worth it to you.) I've scanned in 90% of my negatives/slides, and it's shown how bad commercial developers were. I can't tell you how many under/overexposed and out of focus images I've been able to save...
You were bringing back a lot of memories I live in Rochester New York and worked at Kodak for many years and the popularity of these cameras back then that particular building used to work three shifts seven days a week to keep up with demand the section I worked in was emulsion melting and also I worked in paper coating
That's amazing, Kodak reigned supreme in the film days! 🍻
Lomography and film photography project still make fresh 110 film.
Yep! A few different kinds, too.
I remember waiting to have film developed as a kid at the local drug store, it would take a week and you never knew what was going to come back. I also remember the vacuum tube testers because depending on the TV you had it was either a few or a whole box of them you had to plug in.
Been a while, glad to see you going down electronics memory lane again. I'm old enough to remember things like tube color TVs with round picture tubes and I used to repair them for fun and profit from the mid 70s to early 90s when it was no longer worth the effort.
My first TV was a 12" B&W... THen we got a 10" color TV with a cable box bigger than the TV itself. The 80s were fun. By 1989 we had a 25" color TV and livin' large. :P To think that a 32" LCD is 'small' today.
@@Canthus13 The first color TV we had I bought for myself with my berry picking money I saved up all summer and bought a used 69 Zenith color 23" TV in the summer of 74. I paid 115 bucks for it and had it put in my bedroom. Step dad didn't want to buy a color tv but I wanted one so I got it with the money I earned.
My parents bday gift was a upscale version of this made by Minolta when I was younger .. the Autopak 460TX…. They had a 450E. Loved that camera..😢
you know lomography sells a triple pack of fresh color negative film for $25? not sure why you paid so much for expired film. 110 doesn't age very well at all
haha i was gonna comment this exactly! i just recently bought that same film 3-pack for my own recently-acquired tele-elektralite 600. looking forward to taking some cool car photos with it.
Thank you! Love YT comment section!
I can't speak to how old film takes pictures but I can confirm that exposed film that has sat around not processed for multiple decades does develop just fine.
I enjoyed the heck out of this episode! My parents used the Kodak 126 film cartridge format, but it was largely the same as the 110 format except for size. Me? I used old-fashioned 35mm roll film. My parents thought THAT was fiddly, ridiculous and old-fashioned. LOL! I hope you can get that film processed somehow. Back in the early ‘00s, they even stopped processing 35mm here in Hawai’i (!), which I thought was ludicrous. When the Wolf’s Camera Store went out of business here (as did all the brick-and-mortar stores), I snapped up 151 rolls of old Ektachrome, Kodachrome, and Fujichrome slide film (my favorites, all of them). Took loads of snaps, naturally. I paid…the Moon, essentially…for all that processing, lol! Wouldn’t you know it? The slide film scanner I was using broke down in the middle of the job…and I’ve STILL not replaced it. So…yeah…I miss my film cameras, but I’m a died-in-the-wool digital photographer, for sure! Aloha!
C-41 print film can still be developed. You might even be able to develop Ektachrome/Fujichrome and other E-6 process transparencies.
But Kodachrome is dead. The last place where it could be processed closed years ago. (I don't think another has opened.) It involved a very toxic process.
I still have a few rolls of Kodachrome II 35mm, and a few rolls of 100ft 16mm movie film....
@@Backroad_Junkie Yes! The Walmarts here still develop C-41. Perhaps it’s thanks to the folks who buy those brightly-colored fashion cameras the stores sell now. Towards the end of my film journey, I was even buying C-41 process B&W film! You’d think people like taking film shots here in Hawai’i and that would be sufficient grounds to have E-6 B&W as well as C-41, but that’s sadly the state of things. It was FUN while it lasted even when I had to send the last Kodachrome, Velvia and Ektachrome rolls to the mainland. The anticipation was kinda fun. Also, if you live here or a place like Florida, you have to use lots of desiccant: my camera lenses and even the inside of a film scanner will grow mold in them quickly and profusely. Please enjoy…looking(?)…at those rolls of 35mm slide film. It saddens me to hear that even 16mm movie film doesn’t seem to be processed anymore. I sympathize with your plight. Take care and aloha to you.
There was a Kodak Disc 110 camera, back in the 80's too. I got one for may parents, for their holiday, it was a great camera. I was into (film) photography, with my Olympus Om-10 out fit.
I did'nt develop my photos, as I didn't have a dark room, so paid to get them developed, in a few days. Great fun waiting to see them.
Great video showing how we used older equipment.
Love from Scotland 5* :D
I bet that'd be crazy to get developed these days! 😳
@@TechThrowback I don't think you can get them developed anywhere local anymore. Costco stopped doing it in probably the mid 2000s I think.
Hi, I was given a new disc camera in @ 1984, only took 2 or 3 sets of film, as they were sort of very grainy compared to the 110/126
I dont even know what happened to it, it was left in my old room at my parents home. Things started disappearing ( thrown out ) and eventually the 6 drawer desk and my bed went as well
Yikes, those disc cameras took dreadful photos. So blurry.
@@charlesbridgford254 Often the reason why the pics were so blurry, grainy was because the local processor didn't get the special 6 element lens from Kodak they needed for Disc film processing. Instead opting to use the standard 3 element lens that could cover 35mm, 126, and 110. i.e. cheaper less cumbersome to deal with for processor.. So everyone got poor results.
I remember my friend getting one of those disc cameras for Christmas one year, 84/85' maybe. I think I remember him using it maybe a dozen times. It only took 15 pics per disc.. Seemed over priced for so few pics. But I never brought any film or processed it, so maybe it was cheaper to buy and process than 24 exposure 126/110 film? But I do remember the processed film coming back with a special contact print and thinking that was neat in the 80's kind of way.
I was 16 , went to the Drug Store and bought one. It was the newest thing going at the time. (Yes I'm very old.) I loved that camera. Used it for years. I used Clack Photo Labs to have the film developed, and they you free film back with your pic's.
I loved the Kodak 110 growing up! What a great "inexpensive" camera!! Always fun to try to find the best cheapest place to get it developed. Tried it once myself in high school....what a mess!!
I have on older camera than that. It's a Kodak pocket instamatic 20, brand new in the original box, it even has the instruction manual and warranty card. Has a roll of Kodacolor II C110-12 that expired in Feb 1974, lol. (I'm pretty sure I have a couple extra rolls of film around.) No batteries, it used a "Magicube", a self-firing AG1 type bulb. (The box is missing that valuable flash cube...)
One of the fascinating things about 110, was the cartridge itself curved the focal plane of the film, to better correct for the crappy optics. I used a Pocket Instamatic 50 for a couple of years.
Then I graduated to 35mm, and that was that! 😁
I remember taking so many pictures. Love your 2 channels keep out the good work.
just a heads up, Lomography still makes 110 film, in color, black and white and all the funny film stocks as well
My family had a Kodak 110 camera in the 70's, but it used flash cubes (I don't think built-in battery powered flashes were a thing until the mid to late 80's for the 110 camera).
Ah yes I remember the 4 shot flash cubes with the tangle of (Magnesium?) Wire in them.
Got one of these for Christmas in the early 80s! Might be the best selling camera of all time.
Great job, this is gonna be the main chanel soon!
Yes. I am old enough to remember 110. My sister had the snazzy Kodak disc camera.
A younger version of me could hear the high pitched tone of the flash charging up on cameras like this. Some had a “ready” light for the flash, I just waited for the tone to stop. Wish I still had that hearing. Thanks for this flashback, no pun intended. ~ Chuck
We had one in England. It just lived in a drawer forever
I had one like that!! That 110 film brings back so many memories. I wish we had digital back in the day... the pictures I took with my 110 film were not exactly the best 😅
I was about to say that my late grandparents had one of these, but in the research I was able to do online, theirs was actually an Ektralite 500, which had a tiny yellow button within the shutter button which was used to turn on the flash (I think it timed out after a while if you didn't take a picture), and a flip cover which could be used as a handle.
Hey JR - My first camera was a 'high-end' JC Penney 110 Flash Camera... back in 1978..
Great to see a new video up on tech throwback!
I still have my mom's that she got in 1979, then she bought me a vivitar 110 in 1982 that I still have. I still have use both recently and still take good pictures for what it is. I'm glad Lomography is still making film for it.
I have a pair of Vivitar 110 cameras. Mine have a telephoto lens option. One of my Vivitar cameras is actually motorized which is not that common for a 110 camera.
I can't remember the last time I have seen that camera, but there was a time when they were in every kitchen in every home I entered.
I’ve watched every video this channel has. Great entertainment
I remember having a camera like that when I was a kid in the early 1980s.
loving the tech vids jr! i hope this proves to be more lucrative than cars for ya, doing a great job so far!
I never had one of those. The one I had, I bought at a small town drug store with Mr paper route money. It was a lot smaller and the lens and view finder cover doubled as the film winder. Cool trip down memory lane, JR. Thank you!
Yeah, had one of these back in the day but always shot slide film on it, pretty good results for what was a basic camera.
I had one that used flashbulbs and didn't have batteries. I took a ton of pictures at Boy Scout camps in the 70s. I still have on my wall.
Man, I worked in photo labs through the 90’s. 110 made us all cringe. It was great on one hand for people that couldn’t load film. But on the flip side, the negative size was so small you could only get okay-ish 3.5x5 in prints. God help you if you had one that you wanted to enlarge one in any way.
Thanks for the trip back in time. I hope you develop the film and show us the pictures. When I was the high school photographer, I used a Graphix 4X5 camera and developed my own pictures, nice quality pictures, but a lot of work.
I remember going to the local chemist "Pharmacy" here in the UK on a sat to drop of my films for developing. Where was the common place for developing in the USA ?. We still like to have pictures hanging around the house so i have printed with inkjet photoprinters for the last 15yrs or so. Problem is the pictures fade with age.
In the USA CVS pharmacy still advertises the heck out of photo processing. I worked at a law firm for awhile and you'd be surprised how many actual photographs they use. I'm guessing some people still want to see an actual photograph in court.
@@Cartier_specialist I wonder if there are judges that only want "official" photos only. No fancy still video pictures you take on those pocket cameras everyone has these days! ;) I wonder what would happen if the federal and state law/judicial agencies decided they would only accept print and film as official records and not "virtual" digital images. Suddenly there would be a boom to print and film.
If found inkjet dyes are terrible. Starts fading within a couple of months, even if you put the prints behind glass. I switched over to a printer that uses pigment ink, and I can leave those in bright sunlight all day with no ill effects.
Drug stores were your traditional place to get film developed, but any camera store would also do it. There used to be stand alone little buildings called, "Fotomat" that developed film. Look it up. Hard to describe the little buildings that weren't much bigger than an outhouse, lol.
@@Backroad_Junkie The scene in Back to The Future where the terrorists are chasing Marty in the DeLorean in a VW Bus. After the DeLorean jumps to the past the The Libyans swerve and crash into a Fotomat, a Fox Photo stand. Fox Photo was bought out by Kodak the following year. People outside the U.S. probably thought it was a in-joke reference to Michael J Fox. But it was a real business up to that time, who probably paid for the placement.
This channel is like DankPods, but fancy.
HA! Mine had the cube flash that had four flashes in it. It also came with an extender to have the cube be a couple inches higher up to help from "red eye" in your pics! Memories man....
What the heck?! I didn’t know you made tech videos too! Awesome 😎
Cool! Nostalgic trip down memory lane :D
Are you gonna show us the developed results next time?
Probably on the next 110 film camera I do.Might be a bit, I've only taken 3 pictures with it so far. Crazy how much more careful you are with film exposures! 📸
@@TechThrowback with literally one shot, it better be right :)
"SmarterEveryDay" did a Kodak factory film tour, it was a really good show.
I'm old enough to remember the tail end of the film era, but it's still crazy to think just how much more of a hassle film was compared to digital. Oh, and for what it's worth, Lomography still sells (fresh) 110 film!
My Kodak 110 used a flash cube. If you can find the cubes most sellers want mint for them. It took pretty good pictures for the time.
As a kind I always wanted the used cubes, I thought they were fascinating. Wondered how they worked and why they were just one shot each.
@@marcusdamberger flash cubes were NOT one shot each-they were FOUR shots per flash cube.
Unless you mean flash bulbs:THEY were only one shot each.
@@m.k.8158 Yes, I mean you use them once and throw them away afterwards. I do remember the flash cubes having four sides and the camera rotating the cube as you advanced the film. Does anyone make single use flash cubes, or just flash bulbs anymore? That sound they always use in movies with 30s or 40s era photographers taking pics of the crime scene or perp walk etc. Did they truly make that sound? I don't remember the cubes making any sound other that the camera making it's 'click' sound. But then again, by the time I started taking pics myself as a middle grade student in art class, (mid 80s) they had battery powered flashes. But I remember the older single use ones adults used when I was in single digits for my age.
I think i had basically that same camera, but it was blue with rugged rubber grips and a lanyars, it was fischer price brand but im pretty sure it was made by kodak with fischer price putting the finishing touches on it.
I remember that as a kid.
It was super fun to just sit there and play with the advance, even with no film in them! 💯
We had an instamatic 60 with the big square flash cubes on top
man i miss the good ol days, where you actually had to put in effort.
Cool video! I had a red one of those in the late 80s. Good camera for a beginner. I replaced it with a basic Kodak 35mm camera, which lasted until I moved to digital.
Hey JR! Excellent content and information! It looks like you’re using a lav mic but I’m not sure I’m hearing it. I think a bump in audio quality would be great for immersion. Truly great stuff and I hope I am not “that guy” on RUclips…
Mom had a the exact type camera plus the larger 126 film.
Kodak finally learned. The original Kodak 110 cameras used the K-battery, a unique battery, made by Kodak, and of course no longer made which makes most old Kodak Pocket Instamatics totally useless. Kodak finally listened to customer complaints, and this more recent 110 camera uses AA batteries. Yay.
JR, I have a 110 camera, a minolta Weathermatic
Now that's cool! Did you ever take it underwater? 📸
@@TechThrowback I did not. I bought it when I was in Okinawa Japan. With it being 20+ years old, I wasn’t confident that the seals would work. But I can DM you on IG some photos I took with some expired film and some red scale film
Back in the day i ordered a "spy" camera from the back of boys life. It was mini 110 film camera, barely larger than the film itself...
I found 110 film cartridges on B&H for $8 it's a different company but the same cartridge type.
In the age of film cameras it wasn't that uncommon for popular models to stay in production for decades - just from memory, the Pentax K-1000, Nikon FM-2, Nikon F3, Canon F-1 and Zenit E all had production runs of around 20 years. That's not counting the fact that some models were pretty minor upgrades to previous ones, so if you rolled, say, the Nikon FM and FM-2 together you'd get an even longer run.
It's only really since the use of electronics became widespread in the camera industry that upgrade cycles have shortened, a process which accelerated dramatically with the introduction of digital cameras, though thankfully, that seems to be slowing a little as the technology matures.
Help!! So I just bought a Kodak Cameo motor 110 and the shutter button is stuck to the side any tips on how to fix it ?? Pls and thank you
Let's see the pictures!
Nice vid, I would have loved to see the photos developed.
I have had a few of these, years ago!
I had a ektralite 10 when I was kid.
how about some polaroids
That's something I need to find! Crazy how cheap they were growing up and how expensive they are to buy and use now 😳
My hometown rochester new york. Kodak were very proud of their products and everything was stamped with made in rochester new york u s a.. I can't say that today. By the way opening a fresh bag of cassette film released a particular aroma. As a kid I love that smell kind of like mimiograph fluid.
Oh you actually uploaded?!
It seems every drive-thru parking-lot film developing hut that wasn't torn down, was turned into a drive-thru coffee store.
i think we till have one in a box somewhere
Had no idea film went for $20 these days
More expensive than bullets! At $20 for 20 shots criminals would think twice before shooting someone.
110 comments, I feel like I'm ruining the appropriate comment number for a 110 film camera by commenting but so be it. The Ektralite 10 was pretty much the only camera my parents used in the 1980s and I kind of wish they'd used a 35mm camera instead since the majority of my childhood photos lack detail compared to photos taken when relatives visited from Britain since they all seemed to shoot with 35mm. The irony is that my father had a 35mm Konica camera but rarely used it.
I don't remember who made it, but my 110 used disposable stick flashes. How far we've come.
Too bad Kodak invented the digital camera in the 70s, but chose to stick with film for far too long...
I had one way back when. It was a decent camera.
Hey, just as a public service announcement, everyone should check their old pictures and negatives. Most are at the end of their lifespan. (By that I mean the color dyes are at the end of their lifespan and will start to fade, if they haven't already.) Even Kodachrome is nearing it's end-of-life.
If you want to save them, you should probably start digitizing.
(This doesn't apply to B&W/silver halide prints/negatives. Only color.)
Isn’t it like a double stroke to load the next bit of film..? Idk, I just got one and I’m pretty sure I have to hit it twice to take a new pic…
Are you the same guy on the JRgo car enthusiast channel? If not then you have a twin.
My family had so many of these cameras
how dare you attempt to steal my soul you foul magician!
Unless the lighting was crazy they took really good pictures.
Watch JR.... talk old tech? How are u going to modify that? Maybe a wrap? I miss film... Thanks Mr Ross
Film did have it's place. I shot 35mm until 2002, when a Canon G2 changed my life, lol.
But I'd be lying if I said I really missed it...
my dad had one of those
Although these camera's were small and convenient and easy to load and fun to use, they are crap. Fixed focus lens is not a good thing and to a real professional camera coinsurer they are junk. That is why you can get them cheap or free. The downfall to these camera's is they quit making film for them, unless you find new old stock on eBay. I dabbled in photography and it's really a shame that with digital photography it makes all of the old camera's obsolete, time marches on, goodbye small 110 cameras and Vhs tapes and cassette tapes and home phones that hung on your wall, etc, etc, etc. Nice throwback and always fun to see. 😀✌❤
Don't confuse professional equipment with consumer level equipment. Don't be an elitist.
They may have been less than ideal but they kept Agfa, Kodak, Fuji and other film/paper companies in business for years. They produced more family color photos in the 70's and 80's than anything else. The consumer formats (126, 110, disc) gave the masses an entry-level price point that everyone wanted.
If you look at many old photo albums, say from your parents, most of those photos were taken with these types of cameras.
Looks familiar
Lomography still makes brand new, fresh 110 film. And it's way cheaper than what you paid for this expired one :)
Lomography makes 110 film still!!
No hate but 110 is still freshly made by Lomography and a roll is like $9
Thanks for the Video ❣️ i recently found the 600 Version camera of my beloved grandpa who sadly passed away in spring and tbh, i had no clue of how it works but have the wish to capture the world through his lense ☺️ i just did my first picture and am so excited for the results.
I grew up on the 126 but a lot of us that could not afford the 110 made cameras out of the film cartridge. Those were the days!
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🥈 yo PSU!
@@TechThrowback 🍻
Fotomat!
Where did the poor employee who worked in one of those go to the bathroom? 😁
110 film was only popular in North America and nowhere else. The picture quality is a lot worse than regular 35mm film
Let's goooooooo
Honestly I think this format is either for rich people or for hobbyists who are willing to reload and develop their own film😅 It's way to expensive to do the normal way.
Nice. Mum had something like this, Don't think a kodak, could have been, more shiney. Not all black. Early holiday abroad videos 1980-82 done on it. Into 35mm nicer proper change lens camera after that 80's holidays. Dad got into it and did a local town where we lie camera club.
Nice cheap film if acual got from the shop for $2. Then you said. Someone did well and not even pay $2. What a rip off. Old film. rubbing their hands the seller!. Still hard to find now then, newest 2006.
Guess you never used as intended, develop. Guess nothing do now or if so a dear price. Bet someone take it apart ina dark rom, Do the thing themself taking out the housingand get a fixed negative with the deleloping thing. Scan on computer and turn to colour. always a way. Someone would. Nice to see this old camera, No photos, thought might come at the end. Too dear to do or if can at all!. Nice video.
I had a Kodak Ektra 12. It was the worst piece of junk ever. One could take photos only when the sun was shining. It had no flash, you had to use very expensive single use flashes.
The camera wasn't good. It was cheap. The film was complete garbage and looked like someone took pictures with 640x480 and blew them up to poster size. I have albums full of 110 pics and they're worse than old VHS on a 4k screen.
Back then, cheap was good. A decent 35mm body would cost about $250+, not including a lens.
If all you wanted were some family snapshots, then an entry level $30 camera was good, lol. Shutter speed? Focus? f-stops? Entry level cameras cured all that. 😁
@@Backroad_Junkie Yeah. but now my parents have thousands of photos of a group of blobs that might or might not be us. What really sucks is that the old kodak brownies were originally designed to hit a low price point that anyone could afford... and they pretty much disappeared by the 60s.
@@Canthus13 I still have my 126 Brownie! 😁 But you still had to *load* film.
I worked in a camera store in the 70's (in high school). Photography to the masses was a nightmare.
The new cameras, you just had to drop in a cartridge and start shooting!
You might want to try to rescan some of those old negatives (if it's worth it to you.) I've scanned in 90% of my negatives/slides, and it's shown how bad commercial developers were. I can't tell you how many under/overexposed and out of focus images I've been able to save...
im old
Leica and Hasselblad can only laugh about these 20 years 😁