On Oct 2, 2006, at 8:25 AM, John Celio wrote: > As for the backing paper, couldn't I just put some thick black tape > over the > window and count frames if I really needed to?
Not really. The paper thickness is calculated into the position of the focal plane and determines where the emulsion sits ... for best results, you need the paper in place. > Looking inside my Auto110, I don't see anything that would need to > touch the > film itself for the camera to function. There's a little gear in > the left > film chamber, which I'm assuming is turned by the spool inside the 110 > cassette. I'll have to open a 110 cassette to make sure this'll > work, and > I'm really hoping it does. The tiny size of the negative combined > with the > utter graininess of the crappy Kodak films most often available > these days > make for really lousy images. I'll have to show some scans from my Minolta 110 Zoom SLR of many years ago, and maybe from the Rollei A110. They made superb negatives, and even Kodak 200 print film today can make some beautiful negatives if focus and exposure and processing are right. That's the real problem with most 110 ... crap exposure and poor focus, widely variant processing destroys subminiature work. These were made from Minox EC negatives, only 8x11 mm in size (about half the area of 110 negs) and print much better than they appear here to a 6x8 inch size: http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/minox-00-01/ The Minox EC is a fixed focus, simple, plastic camera with a good lens. One of these days I'm going to re-scan these with my current setup (DS + A50 Macro + extension tubes and 2x converter) so that I can work with them as 5Mpixel images rather than 1Mpixel images. :-) Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
