square Kodachrome - 127 film?

[mich8261]

I found my long lost childhood slides. These were taken by my parents in the late 60's. They are Kodachrome (or so says the frame of the slide). The emulsion part is square, would that make it 127 film? Anyway to tell without the camera?

 

[retro]

What are the dimensions?

Could be 127 or 126.

 

[ZeissFan]

Probably 4x4. The Baby Rolleiflex shot this format, and the Yashica 44 copied this.

Presumably, there were other 127 cameras that shot 4x4.

 

[Spavinaw]

As far as I know 127 Kodachrome never existed but 126 did. Surely there they are 126.

 

[LKeithR]

I still have an old Brownie Holiday camera which I used in the 50s and early 60s. It used 127 film and I still have a bunch of old Anscochrome slides kicking around. The viewable part of the slide is 1-3/8" x 2".

I found this chart which gives some info on Kodak roll-film sizes but it's a bit confusing because some of the sizes don't seem to jive...

http://www.brownie-camera.com/film.shtml

 

[Roger Hicks]

What size are they (mm)? An obvious candidate would be 24x24. I don't recall any roll sizes other than 35mm, 828 and (latterly) 120, though there were cut sizes.

Cheers,

R.

 

[Sonnar Brian]

I used Kodachrome in my Instamatic 150. They are about 1" square.

 

[sevo]

126 Kodachrome positively existed, and was about quite long - I toyed around with some K64 126 in 1992 for the square format when it was the only 126 slide film available hereabouts. Not entirely easy with a camera that only had 100 and 400 ASA settings and no AE overrides.

 

[mich8261]

They are 24mm x 24mm. My dad doesn't recall what type of camera he was using. I guess this is before the era of mirror self portraits.

I know this is not news, but I am amazed at the vivid the colours still are in these slides. I now have to brush up on my K64 scanning skills.

 

[sevo]

126 Instamatic is usually bigger than 24x24mm, about 28x28mm, but it may of course have been mounted in regular 24x24mm frames. The film in the 126 cartridge is 35mm wide, but has no continuous edge perforation.

 

[splitimageview]

Yes, it's 126. I have some square Kodachrome slides I took in the early 70s with my little Instamatic.

Kodachrome color remains vivid for ages...here is a scan from a slide taken in the early 50s.

 

[John Bragg]

My early family snaps were also taken on Kodachrome 126. They are very vivid after 35 to 40 years and I am amazed how well the simple instamatic coped with a film that was difficult to expose with a very narrow latitude.

 

[aad]

Yep, 126 cropped by the mount.

I have my family slides, all 127. Near medium format! Over 400, all watched on projector repeatedly when I was a kid.

 

[John Robertson]

Kodachrome X was on 126 , never on 127 !! Will be Ektachrome.

 

[Spavinaw]

127 slides had a 38x38mm film area in a 2x2 inch mount. They were called Super Slides and could be shown with a regular 35mm slide projector. Although there was never any 127 Kodachrome film, you could still have Kodachrome Super Slides. Think about it. As Roger Hicks said above, 120 Kodachrome was available for a short time. I used to shoot Ektachrome Super Slides on 127 film with a Baby Rollei. However, before the Rollei, I would shoot sixteen 1 5/8 X 2 1/4 transparencies on 620 Ektachrome in my Kodak Tourist II with a Duo adapter kit. Simply cut a little off the top and bottom of each transparency, mount them, and guess what you get. Never did this with 120 Kodachrome, but anybody could have easily produced Kodachrome Super Slides this way. Did anybody else ever make Super Slides this way?