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''See the [[:Category: 126 film]].'' | ''See the [[:Category: 126 film]].'' | ||
| − | [[110 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 | + | [[110 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. The cartridge simply drops into the camera, you close the back, wind, and shoot. At the end of the roll, you don't have to rewind. Even if you open the camera in mid-roll, the exposed film is well protected inside the cartridge. Since the cartridge is asymmetric, it cannot be loaded incorrectly. It also incorporated a simple film-speed setting feature (the world's first), by which the cartridge could set the camera's exposure mechanism to the proper film speed. However, not all cameras took advantage of this feature. |
| − | + | 126 film is 35 mm wide and has a single perforation per frame; the image size is always 28 × 28 mm, as the film has pre-flashed borders. Cameras accepting this film are also called '''Instamatic''' cameras (or simply Instamatics), from the name of the first [[Kodak]] models taking it, the [[Instamatic]] series. | |
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See the Category: 126 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. The cartridge simply drops into the camera, you close the back, wind, and shoot. At the end of the roll, you don't have to rewind. Even if you open the camera in mid-roll, the exposed film is well protected inside the cartridge. Since the cartridge is asymmetric, it cannot be loaded incorrectly. It also incorporated a simple film-speed setting feature (the world's first), by which the cartridge could set the camera's exposure mechanism to the proper film speed. However, not all cameras took advantage of this feature.
126 film is 35 mm wide and has a single perforation per frame; the image size is always 28 × 28 mm, as the film has pre-flashed borders. Cameras accepting this film are also called Instamatic cameras (or simply Instamatics), from the name of the first Kodak models taking it, the Instamatic series.
