Load 120 film on old cameras designed for the Kodak 116 film format!
This Film Adapter Kit lets you load normal medium format 120 film in cameras made for the 116 film spools (for example cameras like the old Kodak Folding Pocket BROWNIE). The 116 film went out of production in 1984 and is extremely difficult to find, and if found it's expensive and obviously expired! No original 116 spool is needed for this system: you don’t have to re-spool the film from one spindle to another.
Film sizes Equivalent to 116
| Kodak | Ensign | Ensign | Butcher | Ilford | Illingworth | Agfa | Zeiss | Ansco |
|---|
| 116 | 2 ½ | E16 | C16 | 16 | 9 | D |
D8 | 6A |
With the 120 film in a 116 film camera you’ll get 6 panoramic-format photographs with a size of about 4¼ x 2½ inches (11 x 6cm).
The parts are printed with a very solid PETG polymer, which is even stronger than the 120 spool material itself!
The KIT come with four universal adapters.
- Load the the empty spool (take-up spool) with two adapters mounted at both ends.
- Mount the other two adapters on the unexposed film and install in the camera.
- Insert the paper leader into the take-up spool and roll up until it’s well inserted.
- That’s it! The kit is very easy to use and will work with all variations, brands of 120 film sold today.
Please visit my eBay store for all these film formats and more.
In general, all cameras (not only Kodak) made for the 116 film format will work with 120 film using this adapter.
- No. 1A Folding Pocket KODAK Camera (collapsing front) (1899 – 1905)
- No. 1A Folding Pocket KODAK Camera Model B (folding front) (1905 – 1906)
- No. 2A BROWNIE Camera (1907 – 1924)
- No. 1A Folding Pocket KODAK Camera Model C (wood lens mount) (1907 – 1909)
- No. 1A Folding Pocket KODAK Special Camera (1908 – 1912)
- No. 1A Speed KODAK Camera (1909 – 1913)
- No. 1A Folding Pocket KODAK Camera Model D (metal lens mount) (1909 – 1915)
- No. 1A Special KODAK Camera (1912- 1914)
- No. 1A Six-Three KODAK Camera (1913 – 1915)
- No. 1A KODAK Junior Camera (1914 – 1914)
- No. 1A Pocket KODAK Special Camera (1926 – 1934)
- No. 2A Folding Pocket BROWNIE Camera (1910 – 1915)
- No. 1A Folding Pocket KODAK-RR Type Camera (formerly listed as
- No. 1A Folding Pocket KODAK Special) (1912 – 1915)
- No. 1A AUTOGRAPHIC KODAK Junior Camera (1914 – 1927)
- No. 1A AUTOGRAPHIC KODAK Special Camera (1914 – 1916)
- No. 2A Folding AUTOGRAPHIC BROWNIE Camera (Changed from square to round ends in 1917) (1915 – 1926)
- No. 1A AUTOGRAPHIC KODAK 1917 Model Camera (1917 – 1924)
- No. 1A AUTOGRAPHIC KODAK Special Camera (w/coupled rangefinder and Bakelite side panels) (1917 – 1923)
- No. 1A AUTOGRAPHIC KODAK Special Camera w/coupled rangefinder, Model B (Back overlaps sides) (1923 – 1926)
- No. 1A Pocket KODAK Series II Camera (1923 – 1931)
- No. 2A BROWNIE Camera (Aluminum, Model C) (1924 – 1933)
- No. 1A KODAK Series III Camera (1924 – 1931)
- No. 1A Pocket KODAK Camera (1926 – 1932)
- No. 1A Pocket KODAK Series II Camera (in 4 colors) (1928 – 1931)
- No. 1A Pocket KODAK Camera (In 4 colors: blue, brown, gray, green) (1929 – 1932)
- No. 1A Pocket KODAK Junior Camera (Black and 3 colors) (1929 – 1932)
- No. 2A BROWNIE Camera (5 colors) (1929 – 1933)
- No. 1A Gift KODAK Camera (packed in cedar box) (10,000 manufactured) (1930 – 1931)
- No. 2A Beau BROWNIE Camera (5 colors) (1930 – 1933)
- Other makers’ cameras that accept 116 film will also work.
Winding and Frame Numbering
Use the red window in the back of the camera for frame numbering: take the first picture at n.3.
Take the pictures with the frame counter at: 3, 5½, 8, 10½, 13, 15½.
If the red window is not available, use the following instructions.
- With the camera open, start winding the film until you see the big vertical arrow, then close your camera.
- Turn the film advance knob 8 times (16 half turns) so that the film reaches the correct placing for the first photo.
- After the first photo is taken, advance the film by 2,5 knob’s turns (or 5 half turns), and do this for photo 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.
- Then wind the film until the end: the empty spool becomes the take-up spool.
- Put the key adapter on it and go shoot again!
- A little trial and error is to be expected.
Wanted (Earn a free set of adapters for your rare camera)
- I need the exact measurements for these following roll
types/sizes: 106, 109, 112, 115, 117, 119, 121, 125, 129.
- If you have access to any of these film spool and you can
measure them to the closest MM I will trade you a full set of adapters
for your trouble.
- Please message me for details.
