Anyone know about this disc film camera?

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Spotted this in a charity chop earlier for a quid. Phone refused to comply with requests to Google it so I bought it out of curiosity.

Its a Halina Disc 328. Takes disc film. Has a switchable lens between either 12.5mm or 25mm and boasts some magical technology that keeps everything beyond 4 feet in focus.

Cant find a lot more about it online now I'm home. About to see if the film and processing is still available (probably not). View attachment 5430View attachment 5431 View attachment 5432
 
I very much doubt you would find any film for this let alone anyone who could process it if you did find any film. If I remember rightly disc film was a Kodak invention although other firms also made the cassettes that the film came in. Theses cameras came out some 30 Years ago and the format was quite short lived and was replaced by the APS system.
 
If you really want to get a shot from it your best bet would be to fashion a holder out of card and mount a small piece of cut film in it. The lenses in these things were notoriously crap and the cameras were aimed at technophobes and folk that just wanted to take snaps. They were just a bit pants really.

There's some non too serious musings on the format here http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/03/31/bad-old-days-kodak-d.html

And there a shot of the negative and a resulting scan on this guys Flickr page http://www.flickr.com/photos/chanta...HW-ceGkuC-8abMtk-8aeN8b-8q9exq-a4REH8-7QHFcE/
 
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Yeah, found some more info. They stopped making disc film in 1999 although you can get the films on ebay etc (no idea if they would still be ok).
There are at least 2 places in the uk that will develop it but its around 20 quid.
The fim size is smaller than 35mm and so pictures are lower res and grainy. Whether thats in a nice retro lomo type way or just utterly rubbish I dont know and I probably dont want to spend that much finding out.
 
isn,t it the same as 110?

just popped in a disk
 
My uncle had a disk film camera years ago. Was surprised how tiny the negative was. The prints that he got from it were terrible. Very grainy. Could have been down to his skills at using it admittedly, but a negative that small can't have helped.

Assuming you can get it developed, scanning it could be fun.
 
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110 is 13mm × 17mm and Disc film is 8mm x 10mm, not surprising it's rubbish :lol:
 
Apparently despite the small negative you could get O.K prints with disc (most ordinary consumers would only get 5/6"x4" anyway), the problem was that labs printing it were supposed to use a new printing lens optimised for the smaller negative, but most didn't bother paying for it and used their usual lens designed for the larger formats which made the results even worst in sharpness etc.
 
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