Pentax Auto 110 Video Manual 1: Overview (Features, Buttons, and Functions)
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- The Pentax Auto 110, the swan song system for 110 film, arrived when the sales decline, general poor performance, and cost to value ratio of 110 film made it clear that the format was soon to be obsolete. That said, the camera's engineering and overall system quality demonstrate that the Pentax 110 system can deliver fantastic and captivating results. The Auto 110, the simpler of the two Pentax 110 SLRs, supported by the 110 lens system, presented cost- and size-conscious photographers with a quality system that was easy to carry. This video series looks at the Pentax Auto 110, the Pentax Auto 110 lenses, and describes the features, functions, and uses of the camera. This video series also provides tips on how to easily and cheaply expand your Pentax 110 system to make it more usable and versatile.
Video Index:
Skip the Intro: 0:15
Pentax Auto 110 Overview: 0:42
Pentax Auto 110 Features -- Top: 8:08
Pentax Auto 110 Features -- Front: 8:46
Pentax Auto 110 Features -- Bottom: 9:14
Pentax Auto 110 Features -- Back: 9:28
Pentax Auto 110 Features -- Inside: 9:39
Notes on the Pentax Auto 110: 10:19
Things NOT to do with your Pentax Auto 110: 14:19
Like this Video and Subscribe to the David Hancock Channel: 17:49
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My Auto 110 just arrived 2 days ago and your videos help the orientation. Good job!
Nice and thank you!
I got one on Ebay in pristine condition. I love it for traveling. The whole system fits in a point and shoot bag. I love it!! 😊👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you! These are ideal travel cameras for sure.
I remember when these were new, not one person I knew then took them seriously at all. You have done a nice job on this review and I have thought the last couple years I might want to pick one up ‘just because’ at best.
Thank you! They're fun to use. They're also really good for hiking or flying.
The absolute most informative video on the 110. Thanks, I bought one with 3 lenses so I can use them with my Pentax Q's
Thank you! The lenses will, of course, only shoot wide open but they are great wide open anyway.
I have this camera from back when it was originally sold, it was my favourite to use back in the late '70s and early '80s. So small and neat and inconspicuous. The picture quality was nice, I managed to get good enlargements too. I had to really argue with the lab to get them to enlarge since it was 110, but the lens quality was so good that it worked OK (obviously not really large, but still larger than the standard size). I went to get my 35mm SLR out to use today and found it in the cupboard, hence looking for information and finding your vid. I think I will have a play with it to see what I get. I was surprised to see you can get film now, I put the thing away back when the main companies stopped making the format. I have 5 lenses, and a number of filters as well as the flash and motor drive. Now I need to work out just what each lens does and how I can use them again. Then I will have to find someone to develop the film. Back in the day I used Kodak Gold, and I found some cartridges in the cupboard - way out of date but maybe it will still work?
Nice! That's an awesome kit.
I would not expect the Kodak Gold to work at all. I've tried some of that from the 90s and it's all unusable. That particular stock did not age well. Your best bet is to sell it on eBay (because people like me will buy the old cassettes to break apart for re-use with 16mm film) and pick up some new 110 film.
@@DavidHancock Thanks for the advice, it would be a shame to pay out for development and find no pictures! There was a part used film in the camera, so I'm not sure whether to finish it and get it developed (I have taken a couple of shots since digging it out, but was waiting until I went on a walk before finishing it off). I didn't realise there was a market for the cassettes, so I will take your advice. Hopefully there will be someone in UK who does what you do.
I realised this is the 2nd of these that I have owned as I have photographs on 110 negatives that predate the Super Auto's manufacturing date, I must have had the original at one time, and maybe it went to an ex after a breakup, and then I bought the Super in the kit after I missed it! Anyway that was a long time and a number of cameras ago now, but I still remember how much I liked using it as it was small enough to not make a big thing of it when taking a picture, so people were more relaxed allowing better candid shots.
Thank you great vid and info/ Cheers
Thank you!
12:00 or so (ISO Vs ASA) - The ISO standard came about by combining the two most common film sensitivity rating systems of the time - the near-ubiquitous American ASA rating (100, 200, 400), and the near-defunct German DIN system (21°, 24°, 27°). Thus a true ISO rating is expressed as ASA/DIN (eg 100/21°), but with limited room on camera LCD screens, the more intuitive and popular ASA component of the rating won out. So ironically, when people talk about "ISO100," that's actually just an ASA rating. (Edited for typos)
Thank you and that's an important distinction (I acknowledge) that I never make.
Very helpful!!! I just got one today ... hopefully it will work!!!
Thank you!
Saw it at the Photokina, probable in1980, and I got the system one by one. When I went to the local photo store to collect my prints I was told only the Pentax could deliver such good results in 110. Lost most of interest late 80-ties but the Lomography campaign for the Metropolis film made me want to use it again. I managed to get a Super version around the Metropolis campaign and also a Minola zoom SLR Mark II. The latter is bigger but offers more control and is from my point of view easier to focus. Now there’s Lomograhy color negative Tiger film but do not forget to tape the film window due to problems with the backing paper. Even 5x7 prints are acceptable. Really love these little cameras. Thanks for these videos.
Thank you! I used one of my ten rolls of Metropolis in the Lomo fisheye 110. The rest are going in this camera. It's an interesting film. Right now it's not anything close to being a favorite. But I just ordered some in 35mm and 120 to see how it performs on a larger format.
Thank you
Thank you!
The Micro Four Nerds channel has a video on using Pentax 110 lenses with Micro Four Thirds cameras, which use a sensor size that closely matches 110 film format.
I've done an in-depth review on the 18mm PanFocus already, too, about a year ago. This year I'm planning to release reviews on the 24mm and 70mm as well. They can, with some flexibility in the definition here, hold up on APS-C in some cases. That's a bit more true for APS-C videographers as the 16:9 aspect ratio cuts out most of the image-circle-related vignette.
Using my 2 Pentax 110 lenses on my m4/3 camera. Works great!!
They'll cover up to APS-C without issue. On M43 they'd be fabulous.
These are fun little cameras.I have at least one of everything for this system except the belt clip and pan focus lens.I even have the tiny tele converter made by Soligor for it.Image quality isn't as good as larger formats,but it's much better than cheap 110 cameras.
Thank you and yes, this is definitely the best 110 camera out there. When I look at some of the photos from it, the right film works well.
Just bought a Auto 110 off eBay for $50. I don’t know if I plan on using it much but I still see value in its history and design
It is an absolutely great camera even just as something to appreciate. Also worth using at least a few times just to experience it.
what a piece of engineering that camera is.. I have been meaning to buy ever since I bought my Pentax Q back in 2011
They are fantastic.
@@DavidHancock I am now after the full kit and hope to try one out very soon.. do you develop 110 film yourself?
@@adrianharrison5208 blank and white, yes. It's easy and exactly like developing any other format, though loading the reels is a bit fiddly and the reels can be hard to find.
@@DavidHancock I will look into this as I just managed to get a 110 auto myself, walked into one of my local charity shops and it was sitting there for £14 with 3 lenses! Very happy
@@adrianharrison5208 that's a fantastic deal!
I have the Auto 110 with the four most common lenses and it is fun to use -- but as you said, the film/developing is at least as expensive as 35mm. I have an adapter for my Lumix G85 micro-four-thirds camera and these lenses work very, very well for stills and video.
The lenses are really nice for these. I much prefer these for black and white since I can manage that at home, but color scanning for 110 is really expensive. The scanning is he biggest difference from 35mm.
@@DavidHancock -- Interestingly, the 110 negative is almost exactly the same size as the micro-four-thirds sensor, but the digital sensors produce much better images than 110 film -- film being what it is. Oh -- I sent my 110 film to The Darkroom -- where I send all of my film, and I'm pretty sure that costs were the same as getting 35mm developed and scanned. The Auto 110 does generate some conversation -- "What DSLR is that?" "How'd they get a DSLR so small?" :-)
Theoretically the lenses of the Pentax auto 110 camera can be used with an adapter on a micro 4/3 camera because the flange focal distance of Pentax auto 110 isn't two shallow and the size of the micro 4/3 sensor is similar to that of a 110 format film.
The flange focal distance of the tiny Pentax auto 110 is 27mm and that of micro 4/3 cameras is 19.25mm.
Of course the Pentax auto 110 lenses can be used on many other mirrorless cameras with adapters like the Nikon 1 mount cameras, the Pentax Q mount cameras etc.
However that aperture is fixed only to f/2.8 but that isn't necessarily so bad as long as the lens is quite sharp.
The Pentax auto 100 and super version weren't successful and the same mistake was repeated 30 years later with the tiny digital mirrorless Pentax Q mount cameras.
They definitely can be used on M43, s well as Sony E. I've tried every 110 lens except the 20-40mm zoom, which I don't have, on both APS-C and FF E-mount bodies. The excess coverage the lenses provide is staggering and all of them cover APS-C.
As for the fixed aperture, yeah, that's a problem. I ordered a microscope aperture and a second 110 adapter to see if I can modify an adapter to have an aperture. On paper it's possible.
Just picked up one of these for a song on eBay with the 70mm 50mm and 24mm lenses. I really wanted the lenses to use with the Q-S1 but I might still have to play around with the Auto 110
Fantastic! These are fun to use but a bit expensive because the film developing isn't cheap.
I use Lomography Tiger. The under exposure is not noticeable. The results are great! Probably due to the quality of the lenses.
I've shot through ten rolls of Tiger on this camera with mixed results. I think that if the film is saturated with light, like on a bright day, it performs well. However, in poor lighting, I've found Tiger underperforms.
Hi David, thanks for another excellent video. I've been subscribed to your channel for a few years, but I think this is my first comment. You talk about 110 cameras recognizing two film speeds. From what I understand there is a tab on the right side of the film cartridge which is either long or short. Long indicates low speed and short indicates high speed. This leads me to believe that you can cut the tab down if you want to push the film which is a typical hack.
Anyway, I just bought some lomo tiger film which is rated at 200 and has a long tab indicating slow film. I’m not sure why you say that the Pentax 110 recognizes it as fast. Maybe you had an older cartridge with a short tab? You say the Pentax 110 meters slow film at 80 which would over expose the 200 film by a little over a stop which should be good.
Like I said, I just bought some 110 film which I haven’t shot in over 30 years (lol) for a Pentax 110 which I bought not too long ago for the lenses to use on micro 4/3. We’ll see how it goes. Keep up the good work.
Thank you! And yes, you're one of my longest subscribers. Creators can see how long someone is subscribed to our channel and it tells me you've been here for seven years, and my channel is seven years and five months old.
For the tabs, yup, you are correct. A slow-sped cassette can be filed down to make it a high-speed cassette, but that's a permanent mod. I wanted to touch on that in my recent video about re-spooling 110 film cassettes but I don't know how far the tab filing has to go to make it a high-speed cassette and I didn't want to provide potentially incorrect or incomplete info.
And yes, I did have some Tiger cassettes with short tabs, but the batch I bought last year also had long tabs and the results were definitely better.
Wow, David, incredible series. I watched them both and they are so helpful. Just a clarification question (probably because I'm not exactly sure what "P" mode is), Can you manual choose the f/stop that the lens shoots at? Or does the camera choose that? Thank you.
Thank you, Aidan! "P" mode is short for Program and it means that the camera does all the thinking for you -- shutter speed and aperture -- based on your scene and the film type (either fast or slow with this camera.)
@@DavidHancock Thank you, David. That's really helpful.
I wonder if the Olympus XA 35mm camera and this Pentax 110 camera would produce comparable quality snapshots?
I wouldn't expect so due to the much-smaller negative size from the Pentax. The enlargement ratio hurts 110 cameras in that regard.
The m43 film camera literally.
Absolutely yes.
what shutter speed does the pentax auto 110 have?
I know I cover that somewhere in these videos, but I forget where. I also forget the shutter speed range off the top of my head.
Strange, growing up in the 80s, 110 cameras and film were ubiquitous, as I used my cheap Vivitar well into the 90s... Buying film and developing was also a common practice... in fact, I had no indication that it was going away or a dying thing. It was considered cheap and kidstuff, sure... but we all had them and used them as they were commonplace.
I remember them well. They were keychains and magazine giveaways.
What were they thinking with this‽ if anything they should have made a serious 126 or 127 medium format camera. That would have been exciting.
Fun little bugger though.
Don’t encourage the use of lenses on digital cameras. You’ll get a lot of orphans out there and you’ll push the price of the lenses artificially.
If people want the lenses they should get and shoot the whole system.
110 was always bigger in Japan than the U.S., which is where the Pentax Q system came from, too. Pentax likes to see, I think, what they can do with tiny cameras.
@@DavidHancock I was about to suggest a digital revival for the Auto 110 system, but then I read the comments and I realised of course that revival _is_ the Pentax Q, isn't it?
oh look at that toy
It's fun. Takes great photos. The lenses can be awesome on digital.
110 was considered dead by the late 80s I would say..... lots of us were still using 110 in the 80s.
Good point.
Oh -- you really emphasized not leaving your camera in your car or ending up with no camera and a broken window -- I take it that this has happened to you?
Not that, but I know people to whom it has happened.
too bad no one processes the film lol
@@frankdiscussion2069 most labs should because the auto processing machines can. If they don't, it's likely they don't want to deal with the cartridges or people who were expecting better results. Do you develop at home?