[pure-silver] Re: 110 cassettes
- From: "Fyodor M. Tcheredeyev" <ps.fyodor@xxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 10:46:53 +0200
Well, I want to thank you, David, and all who replied.
For some reason my server hit a hundred plus messages from Pure-Silver,
and I only today was able to find them, this is why I am replying with
such a delay.
Thank you!
Fyodor.
David Foy wrote:
Fuji no longer makes 110, sad to say. Solaris 110 is still being made
by Ferrania, in Italy. Kodak is still hanging in there. It won't be
with us long.
AP Plastics in Barcelona lists 110 shells in their catalog, but they
expect industrial-quantity purchases (in boxes of 50) and shipping is
expensive.
Salvaging the shells and backing paper from outdated (i.e., cheap!)
110 is, as others have suggested, quite feasible. There is a problem,
though. Unless your 110 camera has manual exposure settings, it's
probably set to "read" the cartridge and set its exposure at either
low speed or high speed. "Low" or "high" were never specified and
could be just about anything.
If you can be sure you're exposing in the 64 to 80 range, you could
consider loading up 16mm microfilm and processing in H&W Control,
which is the only developer I know of that lets you get pictorial
images at those speeds
(http://www.frugalphotographer.com/formulary.htm has the formula --
disclosure: this is my commercial web site).
There are excellent Spur microfilm developers that require
considerably more exposure, but as far as I know you can't mix them
yourself. I think Ed Zimmerman has a lot of experience with them and
perhaps he could advise you. Again, you'd need to be sure your camera
can shoot in the EI 25 range.
David Foy
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