Worldwide

Had an email from Dominic Roberts of Process C-22 who now offer a 110 processing service. Although UK based they are offering a worldwide service. They also support 126 and Disc (remember that?!) and can supply prints and or CD. Everything is hand processed (big plus). Contact Dominic at www.processc22.co.uk or info@processc22.co.uk

Topfoto Services can process 110 film and make reprints, with prices here - http://www.topfotoservices.co.uk/cp.html#110

7DayShop - 110 film can be bought from www.7dayshop.co.uk (they have Fuji, and plenty of it). The company is based in Guernsey and is generally very good. A Pentax contributor been using them for several years.

North America

I had a lot of emails to say that Wal-Mart stock the 400ASA film and carry out processing. My guess is that they will only continue to do so if the demand is high enough.

Frugal Photographer - Stock film - and some interesting information on the film  http://www.frugalphotographer.com

Rapid Photo Imaging Centre:-
www.rapidphoto.net Then use the 110 / 126 film ordering button for new film ordering.
www.rapidphoto.net/orderpage.html Direct Link to 110 / 126 fresh film ordering.
www.rapidphoto.net/110develop.doc for 110 film (recent films) developing, scanning, printing

London Drugs in Edmonton Canada process 110 but apparently send it out to a lab in Montreal. 

 UK

City Photographic (Southampton) offer a complete 110 processing solution using their Agfa DLAB2 with the ultra-rare DlLAB 110 carrier. They offer 1 hour processing AND CD transfer. www.cityphotographic.co.uk

Boots are now becoming a bit sporadic on both film and processing, seems that some branches do and some don’t.

Jessops (the regular UK high street camera shop) still does 110 film processing,They say allow 14 days for processing but I've always had a call to say my photos are ready to pick up after about 6 or 7 days.

Fotoview (www.fotoview.com) are based in London and have been running for about 30 years process 110 films for £7.99. If you phone them they ask what area you are in and they have a list of chemists near your area and you drop your films in and collect when ready. The company travel about collecting all the films, take them back to process and drop back off again.

Europe

“Müller” Drugstore  The film is regularly available at the “Müller” Drugstore chain in Germany, Austria, and probably also Switzerland. Although not listed on their homepage, see http://www.mueller-drogerie.de, http://www.mueller-drogerie.at, http://www.mueller.ch.

Cutting the “Tab”
When the cameras were in production the 110 film cartridges had tabs that the camera could detect to set the meter either at 80ASA or 400ASA. As all 110 film cartridges are now the same, the camera will always assume the film is 80ASA which is not very useful if you have loaded the faster 400ASA film. A simple alteration can be made to the film cartridge - just trim the bottom half of the lip on the right hand side of the cassette (when looking from the back). This will prevent the cartridge pressing the micro-switch.
 

Reloading the Film Cartridges

Its possible, follow the links below for more information
http://www.subclub.org/darkroom/roll110.htm
http://www.geocities.com/markhahn2000/110_reload.htm-
http://www.subclub.org/darkroom/splitter.htm

Did you know that.....
...the designation 110 was originally applied by Kodak to a roll film format introduced in 1898, producing 5" x 4" images. That film was discontinued in October, 1929.

The 110 cartridge was introduced by Kodak in 1972 together with their Pocket Instamatic cameras. The new pocket-sized cameras became immediately popular, and in a short time displaced competing subminiature cameras, such as the Minolta 16 series, from the market.

Tthe film is fully housed in a plastic cartridge, this also registers the image when the film is advanced. There is a continuous backing paper, and the frame number and film type is visible through a window at the rear of the cartridge. The film does not need to be rewound, and is very simple to load and unload. The film is pre-exposed with frame lines and numbers, a feature intended to make it easier and more efficient for photofinishers to print.

In the 1970’s Canon, Voigtlnder, Minox, Rollei, Pentax, Minolta and other (including Kodak) offered sophisticated and expensive 110 cameras with excellent multi-element, focusing lenses and precise, electronically controlled exposure systems. These cameras were capable of making high quality images on 110 film. Some of these cameras were quite small, and still hold appeal to enthusiasts of subminiature photography.

However, the overwhelming majority of 110 cameras were cheaply made, with mediocre lenses and only rudimentary exposure control. The small negative size of 110 film makes it difficult to enlarge successfully, and for these reasons, the 110 format is associated with prints that are often rather blurry and unsharp. This gave rise to the misconception that the cartridge itself is incapable of holding film flat enough for making high-quality negatives.

The 110 cartridge, as specified by Kodak, has a plastic tab on one end. Camera designers had the option of using this tab to sense film speed, enabling sophisticated cameras to switch between high and low speed film. A short tab indicated high speed film, and a long tab indicated low speed film. Kodak left it to the film manufacturer to decide which film speeds were high or low. Only a few expensive cameras like the Pentax110 took advantage of this feature.