I had one of those and my uncle had the Pentax 110 SLR. His was cuter, the Minolta made better photos (and was a lot bigger). It looked like "Mr. Spock's Camera" to me, was easy to old steady and get very sharp results. The tiny SLR viewfinder and f/4.5 lens made for a focusing challenge but with practice you could nail it quite nicely.
110 format was at one time available in Verichrome Pan. Long ago and far away. Color negative, ASA 200, is about all that's available now. Shoot that, scan and render to B&W as desired. I gave my Minolta 110 Zoom SLR to a good friend about the time I moved to California in 1980. He used it for another decade and some, documented his daughters growing up with it. About the middle of the 1990s he called me to tell me the sad news: he'd fallen asleep on a train in the UK and left the camera on the seat in his rush to wake and get off the train at the proper station, didn't think of it until three days later. I bought another one then, in pristine condition, that I put a few rolls of film through and enjoyed playing with, but my photographic interests in subminiature film formats had long since gone to Minox. I gave that camera to another 110 enthusiast friend who, to the best of my knowledge, still owns and uses it today. Great cameras. $5? That's a lot less than I paid even for the second one... :-) On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Darren Addy <pixelsmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't recall ever taking a 110 photo in my life. While I would love > to have a Pentax 110 set-up, I'll have to stumble upon one locally > because they just bring too darn much money for me to justify > otherwise. However, I did stumble upon a Minolta 110 SLR with case and > instruction manual last week for $5. > > Heresy on the PDML? I remember seeing the ads in the Photo mags back > in the day... > http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelraso/5352070054/ > http://www.flickr.com/photos/45789219@N05/5022611865/ > http://www.flickr.com/photos/alvaropics/2850771495/ > http://www.flickr.com/photos/nesster/4346100076/ > > Does anyone happen to have any 110 Black & White film that they would > be interested in selling? (Did they even MAKE 110 in B&W?) I have a > yearning for GRAIN. ("Back in my day, boy, noise was called "GRAIN" > and we LOVED it.") > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
