110 film
110 Cartridge Film
110 and 126 film cartridges were launched by Kodak in answer to consumer complaints about the complications involved with loading and unloading roll film cameras. With the cartridge film you don't have to attach the film leader to a take-up spool and cannot go wrong. Even if you open the camera with a half exposed film inside, the precious exposed film is well protected inside the cartridge. And at the end of the film, you don't have to rewind. The cartridge simply drops into the camera, you close the back, wind on and shoot.
The 110 cartridge contains 16mm wide film and the small dimensions allowed designers to create small pocketable camera that had an aspect very different from the traditional 35mm cameras, even if they had a marked resemblance with the older sub miniature 16mm cameras. As the majority of 110 cameras were extremely simple with a single shutter speed and aperture setting and no focusing available, the success of getting prints from these tiny negatives relied on the latitude of the film. Even with today's modern film emulsions and an accurate focusing and exposure mechanism it would be tough to get much more than a 5x7in print from such a tiny negative. Disappointing print results were the main down fall of the format. The outdated films and cameras are still available today but not easily in the American marketplace.
