Where to get an obsolete film format printed?

WaterWolf

I recently found an old kit camera I built about 16 years ago in a drawer at home. There was still a film in it with apparently 22 photos already taken on it. I've no idea what the photos on it could be or if there's anything there at all, but if there is they're going to be quite old.. I used the camera to take the remaining three photos on the film just to see what would happen.

Now I want to get the film developed and printed however the film is not of the standard 35mm kind. In fact I haven't figured out what format it is yet. It's a fujicolor iso 100 film and judging by the casing it's about 15mm in width. It's in a two compartment casing so the film will be stored in the second compartment after the photo is taken and the film doesn't need to be rewound.

I brought the film to the local fujifilm franchise but they told me they couldn't print from that format as it was now obsolete.

Does anyone know where I could get this film printed? The guy in the shop said they could develop it but not print it so if I'm stuck I can always try scanning in the negatives but it would be nice to get it done properly.

DaireQuinlan

is it 110 ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/110_film

Can't think of anywhere off hand that'll print that. I'm surprised that some place can even dev it, unless he's going to do it by hand. I didn't think the common frontier machines could take 110. Anyhow, best bet is to get it developed and then scan it yourself, unless someone here knows someone who can do it. They'll be scanning it as well anyhow.

DublinWriter

The stock may have seriously degraded in all those years - all you might get for your trouble is a set of very purpley/yellow coloured prints.

WaterWolf

Yea, it looks like a 110 format film. I'm not expecting the prints to be perfect after all these years - in this era of Instagram they might even be trendy! It would be nice if there was still something viewable on the film though.

WaterWolf

This place in the UK claim to do 110 film printing: http://www.photofilmprocessing.co.uk/110filmprocessing.html

niallco

WaterWolf wrote: »

This place in the UK claim to do 110 film printing: http://www.photofilmprocessing.co.uk/110filmprocessing.html

It is possible to run 110 film thru a film processor to get a developed negative, but the modern Frontier film scanners cannot scan them.

In our lab, we give them back to the customer developed and they choose which frames they want to scan.

We then scan each on a flatbed into Photoshop, crop, enhance and then save off in digital format to print.

Kinda slow, but possible......

WaterWolf

Well I sent it off to http://www.photofilmprocessing.co.uk in the end (I managed to avoid paying postage and then got it delivered to a relation in London). I got 16 photos that were quite good - very grainy but that's probably down to the cheap film format. They must have been taken about 18 years ago!

The later photos on the film were all white. I don't know if this was due to film degradation, a camera fault or bad processing. Anyway, I think the whole exercise was well worth while!

pete4130

I've got a 110 camera and film can be sourced. It always gives really terrible results, but thats the charm about it.
anywhere can develop them and I just scan my own negs.