Shot 110 for the fist time on my road trip from Norway to Spain. Using the Pentax Auto 110. 😳 Only brought the lens I had attached which was the 24mm f2.8, no auto-winder or flash. With the wrist strap it often felt like I had both hands free while using the camera. 🤩 I'm yet to get the scans, but I'm hyped. ✨ Out of all my cameras, even small digital ones like the Pentax Q; nothing has felt more appropriate as a travel camera than my Pentax Auto 110. ✨

I wish they would re-introduce 126 cartridge format film. I still have my first Kodak Instamatic 25 126 camera!

Back in the day, 110 was regarded as a snapshot camera. I remember not being willing to sacrifice quality for convenience, especially after getting the new Olympus XA, which isn't much bigger than a 110 camera. I also remember my photography buddy getting the Pentax 110 camera and being impressed with the system, but quickly tiring of it and going back to 35mm. Even so, I'm curious about trying 110, but I'd need to either modify my film developing reels or get a 110 sized one, and also get a wide angle enlarging lens to print the photos.

i love this format! I hope they make more options available in the future! ektachrome would definitely be a good candidate

Yes! 110 is perfect to travel with. The was a time when 110 was the "peoples film" and many households had an Instamatic Pocket Camera as the family camera. I have six 110 cameras I shoot with regularly, and my wife's sole camera is 110. Much of my youth is documented on 110, and it will always have a special place in my heart. Many thanks to the folks at Lomography for keeping this format alive. I have yet to try Color '92 in 110, but I have tried all the other offerings with great success. I know some detest 110, but try the format and come to your own conclusion.

Just getting back into film, and picked up a Pentax Auto 110 set that had most of the accessories. I love this thing. It's SO small, and the interchangeable lenses are pretty good, considering their construction and age. It's also relatively cheap to reload cartridges, if you already have a darkroom setup (at least a dark bag), and the Auto 110 will work without perforations on the film, too, so you can slit a 35mm roll (or a roll of 120, or 70mm, or whatever) to get whatever kind of film you want into the camera. Love your video - it's easy to follow and gives some decent options. Seriously, check into an Auto 110 if you like 110 film, though.

My opinion? Yes it is! The best format for everyday photos and traveling! Absolutely!😁👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

I still have my 1st 110 camera I got for Christmas in 1981 when i was 6yr old. I use the camera up until 1990 when I got a 35mm in high-school. But I used it again in 2015 when I found film from Lomography, all the photos came out good. I did find a Vivitar Opus 10 110 camera. I still having finish the film yet. I plan to finish it on Easter, since the family is getting together. The Darkroom developed and printed the pictures for me.

Super informative video 🙂 I absolutely love shooting 110 and I'm thankful that lomography is still producing fresh 110. It's also fun cutting down and loading your own cartridges with any film stock, although that can be a bit more fiddly than larger formats.

Thanks for this. I've been considering a 110 camera for a while, and I think your video was enough to convince me to start shopping. :)

I think this format perfect for everyday photos and I love the gritty look that you get out of 110!

Thank you very much for making this! It was super informative. I'm getting that nifty little Fisheye Baby cam that Lomography sells and am looking forward to seeing what the results will be! And it really does look so cool

I have a Vivitar Tele 835 AW. AW stands for auto wind. Has a telephoto lens that you can access at the flip of a switch. Because it has a motor you will need to use batteries the power both the camera and the Flash. The batteries are just normal AA batteries that's a positive. It handled the tiger 200 film very well. I don't shoot 110 all that often. I also shot a cartridge of Walgreens brand 110 film I found in my house. Those are pretty well even though it wasn't stored correctly.

I was recently having a sort through of my old stuff stored at my mums and found my old Minolta Pocket Autopak 430E, complete with the plaster holding the battery door shut !!! Temped to get some B&W film and give it a try.

It's very nice the way you review :) Please talk about the new Lomomatic 110 when you get your hands on it.

A couple of years ago I used some new Tiger 200 and Orca 110 and the results I got were pretty poor. I got better results form Tudor film (just a brand name in the UK, they didn't make film) that had expired over a decade before I got it and the results were far better - smaller grain, sharper, better colour (though with a slight warm cast) and better contrast. The problem with ALL Lomography 110 film is that it has a long plastic strip down the right hand side of the cartridge which tells ALL 110 cameras that can "see" different film speeds that it is "Slow" (usually 100iso or even 64iso) film, even the 400iso color '92. This means that almost all cameras will be over-exposing the films eg. Tiger 200iso will be over-exposed by "1 stop" at 100iso, and the color '92 will be over-exposed by "2 stops" at 100iso. Unless you have either the Minolta 110 zoom slr or their 110 zoom slr mk2 and can thus compensate for this by using the ""Exposure Correction" dial, by turning it to "Minus 1" or "Minus 2" and thus exposing 200iso film as if it's 200iso and 400iso film as if its 400iso. Though many photographers like to slightly over-expose print film. For those users with other 110 cameras the multispeed films are only going to be exposed as if they are 100iso, so the stated film speed range of 100iso-400iso is actually a lie. If you want to use expired film try to get some that's expired after 2000, as Fuji, Kodak, Agfa etc. were making their best films about then, and if you have either of the 110 zoom slrs just turn the "Exposure Compensation" dial to Plus 1 as film loses sensitivity over time.

My favorite camera of all time is the Rollei e110. Its a beautiful little aluminum machine. I inherited my moms and all the slides she shot with it of our childhood in the 70s & 80s, and was blown away at the quality of the image quality of the scans i got out of them bc they used to offer some very fine films in 110 format back then. But the Rollei cameras were made by teams of watchmakers, and are so complex and miniature they’re practically unserviceable, so when the torsion bar spring finally goes, it just becomes collectors jewelry & makes you wish some other company would pick up where hey left off.

Half frame is the way to go. More fun - more film. Give me an old PEN and double the shots on any 35mm I can find!

I love the church at 4:20. I always walk past it when I'm on a photo walk.

great vid. I'm a home dev kinda guy and love alt formats to keep things interesting. I cut down 120 to 127 format. the left over is 16mmish and works a treat in my Minolta 16 cameras. Love it.

Pentax 110 are gems..worth a try!

Always brought my Argus mini palmatic 110 on all my canoe trips back in the late 70's early 80's. Easy to load, didn't' take up a lot of space, pull -push film advance like a spy camera. For rainy days I use my Konica Submarine 110.

I have a few of those Minolta pocket 110 cameras. They're pretty cool, but because they're so long, I think of them as being less pocketable than a disposable or simple point and shoot.

The Pocket Fujica 110 was a great camera with built-in zoom lens and manual focus. I think it was sharper than the Pentax Auto 110 I had. My first camera was a Vivitar 110, bought at K-Mart.

An interesting video. In the 70s I used a Minolta 110 and Pentax SLR 110 with three lenses. When the photographed subject was close the final prints were fine, but landscapes were very grainy and hard to view. Leica produced a 110 slide projector which may have offered decent results for the Kodak 110 slide film. If I were again interested in 110 format I guess the highest quality camera with Orca b&w film would be most appealing.

I have a Pentax Auto and I do use for on occasion. Not as much as 35mm because it does cost more to develop. I must say that I do enjoy the Pentax Auto and have liked the results I’ve gotten from Tiger 200 film.

And there are some seriously good 110's out there. The Pentax 110 Auto SLR is VERY capable and has an exceptional range of lenses from18mm to 70mm, including a zoom! Optics are extremely good. Over the years I have consistently printed 5X7 and some 8X10's in my darkroom. While the variety of B&W is limited, overall the selection of film is quite good.

The more I hear about 110 the more I wanna try it again. Use to shoot it back in the late 80s. 😎

As far as convenience -- yeah, in most cases the 110 cameras are very pocket-friendly -- but the small negative size (interestingly almost exactly the same as the Micro-Four-Thirds sensor) and film options produce *meh* results in general. I have both of the Minolta 110 SLR cameras and the Pentax 110 SLR with all of the lenses (also have used them on my M4/3 camera!) -- and those can squeeze out better results from the film than the typical plastic/fixed-focus 110 camera lenses. But yeah -- ultimately you have to adjust your expectations for the image quality due to the small negative size. Happy Thanksgiving, Molly Kate!!!

I would love for manufacturer to build a 110 that could expose 2-3 frames at once like a micro panorama sprocket pocket. Granted the cartridge would require hacking but its fun to think about.

My first camera was a cheap 110 that I got in a McDonald's Happy Meal; it broke after two cartridges. Since then, I have used a Minolta AutoPak 450E and gotten excellent results. I had a Canon 110ED 20 but never ran any film through it. I also had and shot a few rolls through the Pentax Auto 110. While I can see the draw, it never stuck with me; again, getting it processed and scanned was troublesome (even with the Lomography Scanzilla). Personally, I liked Orca and Tiger films from Lomography. I got all my film processed at The Darkroom in California.

Well as a film photographer, I ha e to say that it once was, in the early 70s. Those beautiful cametas from Agfa, leaps to mind. These days, one is genuinely better off with a small digital. Sometings have had their life, and have gracefully passed away. Let it rest in peace.

The best small format travel camera is the 35mm half-frame. There are many camera options available, from the tiny Olympus Pen series, all the way up to the big Konica Autorex. The 35mm half-frame has many advantages over 110 film. First, 35mm film is still widely available in numerous emulsions, Second, instead of being limited to 24 exposures, you can get 72 exposures on a 36 exposure roll, and, Lastly, 35mm film can be processed by anyone who processes film. And, you can use 35mm film holders if you are scanning at home.

I've always had trouble shooting with 110 in low light but could be the 110 cameras i've shot from thrift stores Have you shot fukkasku film? I've never heard it until now! great indepth video

Minolta made a couple 110 SLR cameras. they supposedly took great photos--but I've never owned one. I could barely stand the quality of my Instamatic 126 camera as a kid, which prompted me into 35mm photography when I was in the 9th grade. I never looked back. Almost get hives thinking about the horrible quality my relatives' 110 cameras produced ;-) Even worse, though were those disc cameras that were around for a while. If 110 was postage-stamp size, those were microfisch sized ;-)

I think 110 was really a format that was before it's time. It's almost exactly the same size as Micro 4/3

Anything Italy was made by Ferrania, which was once a division of 3m. They were the source of a lot of 'generic' / store branded film. If you want to explore the dark arts of reloading 110 film cartridges, with 16mm film, Kodak VIsion3 50D is a great film. However, you do need to DIY deveoping, or find somone that can handle remjet removal. Minolta made a large line of 16mm film cameras with reloadable 16mm cartridges, before 110 was a thing.

I never much cared for the tiny negatives and the prints always seemed fuzzy at best. However, a good-to-decent Minolta 110 has fallen into my lap, and I'm running some Lomo 200 through it now. We'll see...

It is fun to load b/w 16mm film which Kodak still sells, into a used 110 cartridge and use a Pentax Auto 110 (cause it still works without the sprockets). And then the film can be self processed at home and scanned…it’s the cheapest way to shoot 110 I think. But this won’t work with other normal 110 cameras just beware cause they need the sprockets to cock the shutter

Not sure if I’d be up for 110 format, mostly because of limited film stocks and if it’s possible to develop and scan at home.

What's the camera you are holding your right hand? Many 110 cameras aren't that much smaller than my Rollei 35 or Pentax IQZ. I used to have several Minolta 16mm cameras and got good results. Grainy, but that is a charm in itself, and huge depth of field, which I like. I'd be interested in 110 similar in size and quality to the Minolta 16GT I once had.

Objectively speaking, it's just a bad film. However, it brings back memories of my childhood. 😊 I now have a camera for this type of film again, the same one that belonged to my brother, an Agfa Agfamatic 4000 Pocket, nice and compact! In German there was the slogan “ritsch, ratsch, klack” a phonetic description of how it works. 😅

Speaking of APS film -- I have managed to collect all of the APS SLR cameras -- in great working condition -- and I am scavenging unused APS film to use in them. Yeah -- expired film and you don't get the bells and whistles originally planned for the developing of APS film -- but, I get really decent results and the cameras were made in that late 35mm SLR/early DSLR era, so they have lots of great features (and the Canon/Nikon APS SLRs can use the standard Canon/Nikon AF lenses!)....

In case you didn’t know, Lomography has just released a new Lomomatic 110 camera.

Technically you could even go smaller with Minox 8x11 Film and Cameras 🙂

Can we compare the quality of 110 and half frame 35mm? I think that it is similar.

Hi Molly, never took 110 seriously back in the day (I'm 64). However recently picked up an original Minolta Zoom 110 SLR at a car boot for a fiver. With some TLC I coaxed it back into life and it seems to be working ok. So grabbed a roll of Tiger from AW (£9) and will be trying it out soon but not expecting too much. I searched online for 110 and have just received an e-mail from Amazon offering me a three pack for £43, that's with 10% off. Lomography are selling their three packs for £19.90?

I don't care whether 110 is the best or worst - I love it, and use it because it is such a convenient format, and therefore loads of fun. Orca is the best film, because it has the highest resolution. I love Metropolis and '92, but everyone needs to contact Lomography to encourage them to make another Peacock batch. Lomography marketed Peacock for cross processing, but it is better processed as E6 which provides a sharper result with good colors. It frustrates me that we need to tape up the back of the cameras because Lomography insists on using backing paper with holes in it that produces speckles on photographs. It is a fake hipster thing about lo-fi, but I find it really annoying, and it is so unnecessary.

Most likely the mystery Italian colour-film was made by 3M and unbranded for use as the "FREE FILM!!!!!" returned with each set of prints by the multitude of postal D&P labs. Talking about the size of the frame, don't forget that Minox film is still produced, in Europe and Japan at least, and that is 8x11mm so much smaller than 110. Also, Minox cameras have a pressure-plate and higher quality lenses leading to a better result on the film -- a sharper image on a flattened (or rather, perfectly curved as the film-plane is an arc) piece of film, rather than a fuzzy image on a 'bendy' frame. One of the things that goes along with most 110 cameras is simplicity for the enduser which, given the time period, usually meant simply leaving out pesky features such as focussing or exposure-control. For a small travelling camera though, I wouldn't choose my Minox B, instead I have used a half-frame Olympus Pen EE (around eighty shots per 135 roll) or, my favourite, my Rollei 35S (135 film, and a battery adapter) which has a very great lens, completely adjustable settings, a good meter and is pretty much the smallest full-frame 135 camera around. I'd give an honourable mention to the various Leica 'Barnack' screw-mount cameras, or the older Soviet clones, especially with a collapsible lens -- they are pretty compact and (if maintained) can give excellent results. Have fun with 110 -- it is all good ! :)

I love 110 but I do not think its the smallest, you can still get minox spy film from 1 seller, online only. I have the Pantex super auto 110 and love shooting it, but its tricky to get the film speed right as it has no speed setting, and lomography doesn't set tabs for high and low formats like some old 110 film cameras and film use to use.

I prefer Minox 8X11mm and Minolta 16mm cameras.

I took mine to Washington DC on a 5th grade school trip, along with several Magicube flashes. The photos are disappointing to look back at. The 126 film was much bigger and better and had less curl. 126 still holds up. 110 does not. But better than Disc film cameras!

Not for me. I used to shoot 35mm and now trying medium format. What to have less grain and higher definition.

"Made In Italy"? Very good chance it was made by Ferrania, or 3M (who took over Ferrania in the 80's). Also, the 110 film size is roughly the same size as Micro 4/3rds (Olympus & Panasonic digital cameras)

No

Not really, 110 film was dreadful and compared poorly with 35mm and I had a good quality fujifilm 110 camera.