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110
Pocket Instamatic film
Is 110 dead? Not quite yet. But almost. Click here
for more information.

Note: the 110 cartridges we sell 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.
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Private-label 110 films
Agfa and Konica manufactured 110 films until about 2002, and
sold them under their own well-known brand names, as well as supplying them to
retailers as private-label house-brand films. Most, but not all, of what we
offer are labeled "York" or "Quality."
These were excellent
films from first-rate manufacturers. The "Lifecolor"
label, on Konica-made films were excellent when new but now show noticeable
age-related deterioration.
The "process before" dates
are unknown, which means the colors and contrast are
unpredictable, so we have tested them and can verify that the colors and contrast
are still generally acceptable (unless noted otherwise). Please realize this
is a subjective assessment. We recommend you store them cold or
frozen.
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Konica-made 110-24, ISO 200, some Konica brand and some
"Lifecolor" private
label.
Colors range from generally good to seriously deteriorated, with
considerable variation from sample to sample. Some users report
magenta color distortion, fog and spotting.
Think of this as an experimental "greenshift" film.
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Item:
110-KON

per roll. 24 exposures per roll
(3-roll minimum purchase, please)
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Agfa-made private label 110-24, ISO
200, "York" or "Quality" brand.
Colors are generally good.
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Item:
110-24-AGFA

per roll. 24 exposures per roll
(3-roll minimum purchase, please)
Price breaks at 12 and 100 rolls
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Agfa-made private label
110-12, ISO 100:
Note that this 12-exposure film shows a touch of "red-shift"
magenta color
distortion, which is useful for expressive Holga-type
photography.
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Item: 110-12REDSHIFT

per roll.
12 exposures per roll
(3-roll minimum purchase, please)
Item: 10PACK-REDSHIFT

per pkg of 10 rolls.
12 exposures per roll
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Only a few left with the original cardboard "Kellogg's Corn Flakes" box and protective
mailing tube with instructions. 
The camera is an Ansco 20
keychain camera with a
Kellogg label applied. This photo shows the back of the
camera, with the viewfinder up, and the "York" brand film, made
by Agfa, which is included with most of these cameras..
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Collectible "Kellogg Corn Flakes" 110 mini-camera
with one roll of 110-24 film attached. Most have house brand film, made by Agfa. Some have Fuji. We have no way
of selecting which you will receive.
Manufactured before 1991, and not hermetically sealed, so this
old film's
colors are unpredictable.
Item: 110-MINIKELLOGG

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The Ansco 50 is
probably the best 110 bare-cartridge mini-camera ever made. 
The film's age is unknown but the colors are generally acceptable. It has spent
its life sealed in plastic away from air and moisture.
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Ansco 50 110 mini-camera, sealed in plastic display
packaging with one roll of relatively fresh Fuji 110-24 film attached. Most have "Ansco
50" printed on the camera's face, with a red ring around the lens,
but some do not.

Item: 110-MINIANSCO


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Instamatic" film
Photographers who use and
enjoy their 110 cameras are becoming increasingly frustrated as only the
most dedicated retail outlets have 110 film in stock (we recommend Blue Moon Camera, in Portland, Oregon).
110 black and white films,
and slide films, have been gone for decades. The dusty boxes of 110 that
you sometimes find in supermarkets or drugstores is either long-outdated ISO 200
"house brand" films, or Kodak 110.
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.
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 photographers who
no longer have convenient local access to 110 films, we continue
offering ISO 200 color films from the last warehouse stocks of major
manufacturers like Agfa, Konica, and Fuji. These films are sealed in a foil-paper laminate for
protection against light, dust, and humidity. Stored cold, they last for
years. Stored frozen, they last for decades.
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Superb detail! Photographed in
2001 on fresh Fuji Superia 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
(if they've been stored cold or frozen) superior color rendition. So rescue that 110 camera from its lonely
drawer, and put its excellent lens to work.
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