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''See also [[126 film (roll)]] |
''See also [[126 film (roll)]] |
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| − | [[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. Since the cartridge is asymmetric, it cannot be loaded incorrectly. You close the back, wind, and shoot. |
+ | [[110 film|110]] and '''126 film''' cartridges - also called '''Kodapak''' - 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. Since the cartridge is asymmetric, it cannot be loaded incorrectly. You close the back, wind, and shoot. |
At the end of the roll, you don't have to rewind. Even if you remove the cartridge in mid-roll, only the current exposure is [[light-struck]]. The rest of the film is protected inside the cartridge. |
At the end of the roll, you don't have to rewind. Even if you remove the cartridge in mid-roll, only the current exposure is [[light-struck]]. The rest of the film is protected inside the cartridge. |
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See the Category: 126 film. See also 126 film (roll)
110 and 126 film cartridges - also called Kodapak - 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. Since the cartridge is asymmetric, it cannot be loaded incorrectly. You close the back, wind, and shoot.
At the end of the roll, you don't have to rewind. Even if you remove the cartridge in mid-roll, only the current exposure is light-struck. The rest of the film is protected inside the cartridge.
It also incorporated a mechanical 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 35mm wide and has a single perforation per frame. The image size is nominally 26×26mm, though actually it is 29×28mm masked to approximately 26½×26½mm. The film has pre-exposed borders and exposure numbers. 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.