I wandered around a few camera stores and Kodak express type places today and could only come up with two sorts of film, a Fuji Superia 200 and Kodak Gold 400. I think one of the pharmacies nearby has Agfa 200. I bought the Fuji and was told that it had already been discontinued.
One of the Kodak Expresses even had some 6 month out of date Kodachrome 25, but not in 110! A good resource for all sorts of sub-miniature stuff is http://www.subclub.org/ and they have a discussion on how to reload 110 film cassettes. Fortunately the Auto 110 doesn't need to have film with sprocket holes for registration, so most sorts of 16mm film could be used. What might be a more useful alternative is to cut down 35mm film or maybe 120 film with a film slitter (also described at subclub.org) as this would give you a much wider variety of emulsions to work with.You would probably have to do your own processing, but 110 processing reels still seem to be easy to get. The 35mm stock would be relatively wasteful as it would only yield one length of film from the stock - 110 is probably just too wide to get two pieces side by side. 120 on the other hand should get you three, maybe even four lengths from the one piece. I don't know whether the difference in film thickness (120 is quite a bit thinner than 35mm) would be significant. Another less difficult possibility is to simply cut across the 35mm stock to get a single frame that could be stuck to the cassette and then loaded into the camera in the dark. You would only get one shot, but you can bet your approach to composition would be changed when each shot means another trip to the darkroom or fumbling about in a changing bag. Paul Ewins Melbourne, Australia - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
