Happy 116 Day!

[Ambro51]

Yup, waited a year for today! Let’s see your 116 Cameras and images! My Autographic has been a genuine user and winner of photo contests. Mid ‘70s I got my 116 film by finding little mom and pop drugstores who had the stuff on the shelf for decades.

 

[rfaspen]

Where does one get 116 film today?

 

[raid]

Here is an adapter for 116 to 120 film.

https://filmphotographystore.com/products/adapter-116-to-120-film-adapter

 

[Vince Lupo]

Lumiere Sterelux by Vince Lupo, on Flickr


Sterelux Back by Vince Lupo, on Flickr

 

[Vince Lupo]

Here is an adapter for 116 to 120 film.

https://filmphotographystore.com/products/adapter-116-to-120-film-adapter

Oftentimes it’s not just as simple as using the adapters - you might have to also put a couple of metal strips across the top and bottom of the film gate to support the film, otherwise the film won’t stay flat. That’s what I had to do with the Sterelux above, and it works rather well with 120 film.

 

[oftheherd]

Here is an adapter for 116 to 120 film.

https://filmphotographystore.com/products/adapter-116-to-120-film-adapter

Oftentimes it’s not just as simple as using the adapters - you might have to also put a couple of metal strips across the top and bottom of the film gate to support the film, otherwise the film won’t stay flat. That’s what I had to do with the Sterelux above, and it works rather well with 120 film.

Thanks both of you for the tips. I think I only have two 116 cameras, at least only two I would like to use. Sorry, no photos. One is a simple straight folder. The other I think is a panoramic. The film plane is curved and it is a box camera. I've been trying to figure out how best to use them and the best I have come up with is to visit a machinist for inserts for the backs. I think I like this better.

 

[Ambro51]

The curved film plane was a technique used to make the coverage of the simple meniscus lens more “balanced toward the outer part of its coverage. Images will be “normal”. 120 is almost exactly the width that will fall into the 116 opening, that’s why some kind of guide helps. I’d imagine a nice method might be shim brass strips held by contact cement.

 

[Muggins]

That is a seriously cute camera, Vince!

 

[oftheherd]

The curved film plane was a technique used to make the coverage of the simple meniscus lens more “balanced toward the outer part of its coverage. Images will be “normal”. 120 is almost exactly the width that will fall into the 116 opening, that’s why some kind of guide helps. I’d imagine a nice method might be shim brass strips held by contact cement.

Thanks for that. I had never heard that before. No wonder, that is the only camera I have ever seen before or since, with that curvature. That is why as you suggest, I hoped a machinist might help.