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110 Pocket Instamatic film

Is 110 dead? Not yet. Click here for more information.

Found some old 110 Instamatic film in your parents' basement or attic?  Concerned that time, heat, and moisture may have damaged it? Bluefire® "Lux Eterna™" processing for long-outdated film is available, and it's not all that expensive. Click here.



Available again, but not for long: Solaris brand, fresh-dated 110 film from Italy. This is part of the factory's final production run, and it's the last we have. Per package of three rolls:  



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Note: 110 cartridges are sealed in airtight, moisture-proof packaging and can be frozen for an indefinite time without deterioration. Click here to read about long-term storage of films.

Fuji Superia 200 110-24
Fuji stopped manufacturing 110 outside Japan in about 2003 and discontinued sales of 110 in North America in 2004. Fresh 110 made in Japan sometimes shows up in Europe and Asia, but not regularly. 

This is an excellent ISO 200 film with superb colors and very fine grain. It's not Fuji's latest technology, but it's the next most recent, and that's not a bad thing.

We offer this film in 3-packs, most rolls dated mid-2005, some later, guaranteed to give excellent images. 24 exposures per cartridge. These rolls dated 2005 are from the last production run in Holland that went to North America. They were stored in Fuji's refrigerated film warehouse until delivered to us in January, 2007.


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We also offer 2-packs. We recently located a distributor clearing out the last of their Fuji Superia 110, packed in those "buy one get one free" packs you used to see all the time at Wal-Mart and other discounters. These rolls are older than the films offered above, mostly dated 2004 but quite a few are dated a year or more earlier. They're mixed together and we decided against sorting them by date, so you will receive films of no specific dating. They were obviously stored refrigerated, because we tested several of the oldest rolls, and they give perfectly acceptable color and contrast.


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About 110 "Pocket Instamatic" film

Photographers who use and enjoy their 110 cameras are becoming increasingly frustrated as fewer and fewer retail outlets keep 110 film in stock. When it is available, it's often long past its "process-before" date, and there is limited choice — Kodak 400, or ISO 200 Ferrania (most "house brand" 110 is Ferrania). Agfa 110 hasn't been available for years, and Fuji no longer makes it outside Japan. 110 black and white films, and slide films, were long ago discontinued.

Kodak's 110 is very good film, but there is an issue related to how it's packaged.

When 110 was introduced (1972), the engineering specification was that camera manufacturers would have the option of making two-speed cameras, that could automatically set themselves for either high-speed or low-speed 110 films, without manual adjustment by the photographer. 

With low-speed films, a ridge, or tab, at the end of the 110 cartridge would depress a lever in the camera body. With high-speed films, the ridge would be too short to depress the lever. This way, the camera could "sense" whether the film was high speed or low speed, and it could automatically set itself.  Most relatively sophisticated 110 cameras, the ones with good lenses, look for the ridge to set shutter speed.

But exactly what constitutes "high speed" and "low speed" was never specified. The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) did, in fact, publish a specification for exactly which tab length keyed exactly which film speed, but no manufacturer, either of cameras or films, appears to have implemented it.

At the time, it made no difference -- high speed films were ISO 200 or 400, and low speed was anything from ISO 125 down to 64. In snapshot photography, this kind of latitude is considered good enough.

The problem is that, today, Kodak's 110 is an ISO 400 speed film packed in a ridged cartridge that the camera "senses" as low speed. The result is ISO 400 film exposed as though it were ISO 100 or ISO 64. This is gross overexposure.

Casual users might not care, but careful photographers usually find their Kodak 110 photos are unacceptably overexposed, with poor color matching and excessive grain. The problem is compounded by Kodak's price for this film, which is quite high.

That leaves you with two options: either manually trim off the tab on your Kodak 110 cartridge, so your camera treats it like high speed film, or stick with ISO 200 films.

For the benefit of 110 photographers who no longer have convenient local access to 110 films, we are now stocking 200. This film is sealed in a foil-paper laminate for protection against light, dust, and humidity. Stored cold, it lasts for years. Stored frozen, it lasts for decades.

 

Superb detail! Photographed on Fuji 110 film, using a Pentax 110 SLR with 70mm lens. Modern 110 films are of much higher quality than the original 110s from the 1970's. They give very good images with high resolution, excellent granular structure, and superior color rendition. So rescue that 110 camera from its lonely drawer, and put its excellent lens to work.

 

 


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