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Maximilian

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This film seems to big!!
« on: September 12, 2009, 07:33:56 am »

hi photographers.
i have a slight problem with my hawkeye A116 i bought yesterday
a picture tells more then 1000 words, so please check it out and tell me what u think and suggest:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/13051781@N06/3911476067/

thx
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MarkL

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This film seems to big!!
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2009, 11:48:24 am »

The clue may be in the name (and on the door in your pic) and it could take 116 film not 120:

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Some Kodak and Brownie folding cameras made from 1914 to the 1930's have a little door on the back which is marked "use Autographic film A-(number)". A-116 film, for example, was for the same size pictures as 116 film but instead of red and black duplex paper, the film was wound with a sheet of carbon paper and thin red paper. This film used in an Autographic Kodak camera allowed a brief message to be written on the film in the space between the pictures. Pressure of a stylus on the backing paper transferred the carbon to the red paper and light passing through these lines in the carbon paper would photograph the message onto the film.

from http://www.nwmangum.com/Kodak/FilmHist.html
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bill t.

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This film seems to big!!
« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2009, 11:49:15 am »

That's not the right flash card for that camera!

http://www.filmforclassics.com/printable_order_form.htm
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Maximilian

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« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2009, 01:46:35 pm »

so the 116 is (was) a BW iso 50 roll film that wasn´t produced after 1984, shit.
then i´ll build something.
i must say: the camera is in a very good condition
thx guys.
u help me alot.
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MarkL

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« Reply #4 on: September 12, 2009, 04:34:32 pm »

Quote from: Maximilian
so the 116 is (was) a BW iso 50 roll film that wasn´t produced after 1984, shit.
then i´ll build something.
i must say: the camera is in a very good condition
thx guys.
u help me alot.

616 is the same as 116, there is a lot of discussion on using 120 film in 616 cameras:

http://www.mattdentonphoto.com/cameras/shu...conv/index.html

http://www.makinghappy.com/archive/000179.php
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