My personal experience of reloading the cartridges - 1. It's not that hard, once you learn where to cut the cartridge to open it up without damaging it. Forget about trying to use the film in it first, you need to open them up in daylight. 2. 16mm single perf (1R) is the way to go - still available in Plus-X and Tri-X last time I looked. 3. There is a tab you need to remove to differentiate between 100 & 400 film (Actually I think the Auto 110 meter sets 80 and 320 ISO) 4. If you load the film one way up it will stop at every perforation, so you need to wind and fire (with the cap on) around 3 1/2 times to get to next frame. 5. If you load the other way up it will wind on freely, but if you wind too far the shutter uncocks and you waste the frame. It is better to never wind on after shooting. If you press the shutter button and nothing happens it is time to wind on. 6. Learn to love the grain. 7. 110/16mm film reels are a little hard to find but if you are patient they will turn up on eBay.
Paul > I used to sell those, they were quite impressive little cameras. > > Good luck finding 110 B&W film. The only type that I believe was ever > supplied was Verichrome Pan, long discontinued in 110 and any other size film > for that matter. > > There are those who maintain that you can reload properly salvaged 110 > cartridges with 16mm film stock but the standard perforations will fool and > "Kodak" standard film counter, (which I cannot remember if this camera has or > not), or the perforated stock will not allow the shutter to cock. Either way > frame registration will be problematic. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
