How to make prints from 40 year old 'Kodak Safety Film'?

usenet.TakeThisOut@pilotyid.com (Aaron) writes:
 > I have some old negatives, from about 1970 that I have found in my
 > grandparents home. I would like to create prints from these negatives.
 > The film does not look like other negatives that I am familiar with,
 > the holes are only along one side and it says 'Kodak Safety Film' on
 > the edges. I brought these to one photo shop and they said that their
 > machines could not print these. Do you have any recommendations as to
 > how I can create prints from these negatives? I am in the NY area.
 > This website seems to think that the film is "Ektachrome MS 7256"
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This is puzzling. Ektachrome is a colour reversal film (i.e. it
produces positive colour transparencies) - you refer to them as
"negatives".

 > Can anyone help me figure out what this is and where I can get them
 > printed?

To identify the film format, it would help if you told us the size of
a frame.

As a guess (based on their age) , I would say they're from a Kodak
Instamatic camera, which used the formats "110 Instamatic" (13 x 17
mm) or "126 Instamatic" (26.5 x 26.5 mm). Both were supplied in
cartridges and used only one registration hole per image.

If it is Instamatic cartridge film, modern minelabs won't handle it,
but there still is a lot of labs that is capable of producing reprints
for it. Use yellow pages and call the labs in your area and ask if
they accept the format.

To find a mail order lab, I suggest you google for:

110 126 reprints

This page also hs some pointers to cartridge printers:

<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.frugalphotographer.com/processing_instructions.htm" target="_blank">http://www.frugalphotographer.com/processing_instructions.htm</a>

Or you could get them scanned. After they've been digitalized, any
digital shop should be able to make prints.

Here is a page with scanning instructions for the 110 format:

<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.tedsimages.com/text/scan110.htm" target="_blank">http://www.tedsimages.com/text/scan110.htm</a>

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<< I have some old negatives, from about 1970 that I have found in my
grandparents home. I would like to create prints from these negatives.
The film does not look like other negatives that I am familiar with,
the holes are only along one side and it says 'Kodak Safety Film' on
the edges. >>

Aaron-

My guess is that your negatives are Kodacolor "Instamatic" format that was
quite popular in the 1970 time frame. As I recall, Instamatic film is 35mm
wide, but the image is square. It is wider than the 24mm of standard 35mm
film, since there is more space for an image when you eliminate one set of
sprocket holes.

It is unlikely that the film is Ektachrome, which is normally a positive
transparency film. Most processors would refuse to develop Ektachrome as a
negative. I once had a roll of Ektachrome developed in Kodacolor chemicals.
The result was not bad, but there was a risk that the film might have
contaminated the chemicals.

Around here, the local processors can't handle Instamatic format negatives.
However, some will send it to another lab that can.

Fred
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