110 cameras

[Godfrey DiGiorgi]

On Oct 2, 2006, at 8:34 PM, John Celio wrote:

> How about if I took a small strip of the backing paper and taped it  
> into
> place on the inside of the cartridge?

I somehow doubt it would work properly. Despite the clumsy, huge  
cartridge, the internals are pretty tightly controlled for tolerances.

> I really wish I had a spare roll of
> 110 film here that I could take apart so I could see everything we  
> (and the
> various 110 websites) are talking about.  I shot all my 110 film  
> months ago,
> since it was all expired, but didn't think to keep the cartridges.   
> Once I
> get a cartridge or two, I'll have to do some experimentation.

Just buy a couple of rolls and sacrifice them. It's not like a roll  
of 110 film is all that expensive... :-)

> I just need to get a film splitter.  My carpentry skills are much  
> too rusty
> to follow the various slitter design instructions I've found around  
> the web.

You can buy a 100' roll of 16mm Kodak DoubleX Pan single perf (the  
equivalent of Plus X) for about $10. That's many rolls of 16mm still  
camera film and no slitting required. Figure out the right processing  
and exposure it for the ASA required...

Godfrey