On the Web: Converting an Instamatic/126 camera to shoot 35mm
I tried this before a few years ago, with a bad result. Looks like I could have used this tutorial!
Excerpt:
I was fortunate enough to have found my Instamatic camera with a 126 cartridge inside. After reading up on the film format and it’s (lack of) availability, I thought I’d just bought a showpiece. About a week later, I stumbled across an article explaining how to reload the 126 cartridge with 35mm film.
First thing I had to do was sacrifice the film in the cartridge. I didn’t want to, but developing someone elses 126 film would have been expensive and a waste of money anyway. I’ve made a youtube video of how to do this procedure, it will do a better job of explaining how this part works.
Read the full article here (link).
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this is the same article that gave us the idea, hence why we dropped forty big ones for three new rolls…
Thanks for sharing the link!