My dad still has one, I could get it and photograph it if you want?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mick Maguire [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 14 January 2002 17:07
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Old Slides
>
>
> "Instamatic"... "Magicubes"... "drop-in loading"
>
> Of course! This rings some very distant bells. I vaguely
> remember a camera
> in our household which was a Kodak "Instamatic" all I
> remember was it had a
> silvery looking front and came in a yellow Kodak box, that
> was kind of like
> a display tray/case. It did indeed use Magicubes (which I
> used to have great
> fun dis-assembling as a child!). From what I recall this camera was my
> Mother's. Many thanks to all who answered! I'm off to eBay
> to see if I can
> see anything that resembles my very faint memories of this. :0)
>
> Regards,
> /\/\ick...
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joe Wilensky
> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 11:21 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Old Slides
>
>
> Mick,
>
> Sounds like the 126 Instamatic film. Same physical size as the 35mm
> strip, but only one row of small sprocket holes, which actually
> allowed for an image size greater (in height, anyway) than that on
> traditional double-sprocketed 35mm film.
>
> These cameras must have sold by the millions from 1964 through the
> late '70s, most with fixed focus and aperture lenses. They had
> drop-in loading, and all cameras were made to take flash easily --
> first with single AG-1 bulbs, then with flashcubes, then Magicubes,
> and then the Flipflash. For cloudy days, you could put a spent
> flashcube in the socket, which would increase your exposure by a stop
> by reducing the shutter speed from about 1/90 to 1/45. Better models
> had electric eye exposure.
>
> By the early '70s, some predicted that 126 (and the new 110
> cartridge) would spell the end of 35mm by the end of the decade.
> Kodak and Contaflex made high-end SLRs that took 126, and many
> cheaper brands like GAF offered entry-level snapshot cameras.
>
> My parents had only a Kodak X-15 Instamatic camera, and took many
> rolls of Kodachrome 64 slide film for family snapshots. My first new
> camera was an X-15F (it took Flipflash) for my 10th birthday in
> October 1979.
>
> 126 offered better image quality than 110 (and far better than the
> later Disc film, which wasn't introduced until 1981, as best as I can
> recall), but I think its default position as being a snapshot format
> or for amateurs, plus an inherent problem with keeping the film
> sufficiently flat, spelled its eventual doom as compact 35mm cameras
> with autofocus began showing up in the late '70s.
>
> I don't think 126 is completely discontinued, although I haven't seen
> it anywhere in quite a long time. Can it still be bought in bulk from
> Kodak?
>
> The slides, since they have nearly the same picture area as 35mm, are
> generally of very nice quality, especially for average outdoor shots
> and well-exposed flash shots.
>
> Joe
>
> >Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:28:24 -0500
> >From: "Mick Maguire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Old Slides
> >
> >Hello all,
> > I am in the process of converting my late father's slide
> library into
> >prints, partly because the slides are starting to
> deteriorate (fading and
> >color shift) and partly because nobody in my family has a
> slide projector
> >anymore and this library contains all pictures of the family
> between 1960
> >and about 1985.
> >
> >Whilst copying the slides I came across some of a strange
> shape, they look
> >like 35mm slides i.e. the slide mount is the same size as a
> 3mm slide. the
> >difference is that the opening in the middle of the mount is
> square (I
> would
> >guess about 24mm or thereabouts). On dismantling a mount the negative
> itself
> >is square and seems to lack the usual sprocket holes (only 1
> being evident
> >instead of the usual row). The film is Kodak, but that's all
> I know. Maybe
> >this is a simple question, but I'd like to know what format
> this film is
> and
> >what sort of camera might have been used, just for
> interest... I don't know
> >of any other format camera used by my father other than
> 35mm, but these
> sure
> >look like slides he has taken. I would date these particular
> slides as
> being
> >around 1970.
> >
> >Regards,
> /\/\ick...
> --
>
> Joe Wilensky
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