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I've printed to 5x7 with a 50. Looked fine.
Good thing I've got an A110, good feeling camera so far.
I built one out of tape and silver foil.
I believe you need a 40ish for half frame. I know my 30mm Minolta doesn't cover, but that is kind of a special lens. Of course if you are doing small prints then 30ish might cover, but if you are doing small prints you might as well use a 50mm. If you are really determined Olympus made an enlarging lens for half frame. IIRC it was a 38mm. I've only ever seen one though, so good luck. Lol. I do have a 35mm Fuji lens in a weird mount that I assume came off a minilab machine. If I was a machinist I'd make an adapter to try it. It has a really large film side, so it might actually be a full frame lens. I'm assuming it is for half frame though. Maybe one of these days I'll jam it into some foamcore or something and try it.
The Ektramax definitely looks interesting. It has a max shutter speed of 1/125 unless you can find 400 speed film as it uses the cartridge speed to determine exposure settings. w iso 400 film you get 1/350 to 1/30 in 4 steps.
The Rollei A110 gives you 1/400 sec to 4 seconds steplessly, automatically. It is also much smaller than the Kodak, and much nicer built out of metal instead of plastic.
Here is a nice read:
Small Format Size, Big Format Results: One Ten Camera Guide to 110 Cameras!
...or maybe 11 or more, depending on how you count. Could one of this band of misfits be coming to a pocket near you soon? It's t...quirkyguywithacamera.blogspot.com
It's easy to build a new one. See https://www.subcompactcam.com/110_replace_kodak_k_7r31_battery.htm
I'd consider it if I owned one. I'm sure there are a ton of them on-line -- both photos and Ektramaxs.
Which one are you referring to -- Minolta made three 30mm enlarging lenses:
http://www.subclub.org/darkroom/lenses.htm
Nope and no.
Which makes me think either these didn't sell, or are all broken.
30s seem fairly rare in Europe, 50 would be way high up for any decent enlargement, and to me the appeal would be to really bring out the grain with larger enlargements, otherwise might as well use 35mm. Unfortunately subclub seems to be down, can't find more info on alternatives rn. And yes, I should have a glass carrier, but I don't... Those are also rare and expensive-ish, I'll need to just make one, shouldn't be too difficult.You don't need fancy. You can just use a 50. If you have a glass negative carrier (you should have one anyway) then it is a piece of cake. You can just make a mask for the 110 neg, or any other size you want. I do that with my Saunders. 4x5 negative carrier and a mask for all the other sizes. I even have one for the Minox.
The 30mm Minolta is probably the best lens for small formats. They aren't too expensive.
You are right, but there are plenty in aperture priority, even with a rangefinder and with a wide range of speeds up to several seconds. Good quality cameras and lenses btw...
Unfortunately subclub seems to be down, can't find more info on alternatives rn.
There is only one, they just labelled it differently over time or geography IIRC.
Years ago one surprising camera I tried was a Kodak Tele Ektra 2. It had (jogging dim memory) a 22mm and 44mm lens set, both 3 element lenses that I believe were f5.6 and the 44mm could be focused via symbol. It used flip-flash bulbs and I had the bottom end of a used flip flash to set a lower shutter speed if it was dim outside. Bought out of curiosity and played with it for a couple of weeks and then gave it to my sister-in-law. The results for album size prints was excellent. That was about 40 years ago. When Kodak introduced 110 film and cameras the model 60 had as good a lens as any top quality camera and even the bottom of the line model 20 had a three element lens.
There were three -- first a Rokkor E 30mm f4.5, then the Rokkor E 30mm f2.8 in the Minolta ENLAHEAD, and then the Rokkor-X CE 30mm f2.8. Many people, like you, think they only made the CE version, but there were two earlier models. They also made a Rokkor E 25mm f3.5 for their 16mm cameras.
Kodak sold a lot of different FLING cameras -- 110, 35mm, disposable, reusable, etc. Care to enlighten us?
This is the 110 thread so assume it's the 110 version
The film it came with was useless so it was reloaded with some Tri-X.
That is a beautiful camera.
This is the 110 thread so assume it's the 110 version
The film it came with was useless so it was reloaded with some Tri-X.
Minolta 16 II, '0' filter, Kodak HQ Link, Rodinal 1:175 stand 1 hour.
Cap came off the receiving side of the cassette when I removed from camera. I stuck my thumb over the chamber but a few frames got fogged. Surprised the whole thing wasn't burnt.
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