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     rick oleson Rating: N/A |
8 x 11 mm is the size of the Minox format. 110 is much larger, 13 x 17mm - about as big as you can get onto a 16mm film width. Not all 110 cameras were bad; the Pentax Auto 110 in particular produced very good results in this format, and there were a number of other good 110 cameras. The Kodak Instamatic 60 was not bad, it was the best from Kodak with its fast lens and coupled rangefinder. Certainly the 110 format does not deliver 35mm results, other things being equal.... but a good 110 will stand up well against most 35mm cameras of comparable size (which are mostly limited point & shoots). I never heard anything particularly complimentary about the Disc system though. The format was about Minox size, which demands exceptional optical quality for good results (something most of the Disc cameras lacked), the cameras' vertical flat shape made them hard to hold steadily and the radically different nature of the film made it incompatible with existing processing equipment. Its main (only?) virtue was a temporary shot in the arm for Eastman's film business. |