I have purchased yet another absurd camera.
Here is the Prisma Micro 110. It is sometimes called the "smallest film camera in the world" which it probably isnt, but it's very illustrative. Shown here with my Pentax Auto 110 (which is broken😭). Both cameras take the same 110 film format. "wow the Micro 110 is so much smaller! Where does the film go?"
Around it.
The film cartridge is bigger than the camera!
So, the question is: How does it perform? Unfortunately the answer is "I don't know yet." Currently my 110 developing capacity is limited due to a lack of well-functioning development reels. I have new ones ready to go from my 3D printer friend but have been unable to see her due to illness.
That being said, it's likely that optical performance will be "kinda crappy." Which isn't exactly unexpected. This is a toy camera with a single-element meniscus lens and a very simple, nonprecision, spring-loaded shutter. It likely performs similar to my Ansco Sure-Shot box camera, which you may have seen in this fairly popular post about it. [As a side note, something that's annoyed me about that post for a while is that i don't think i made it clear enough that the pictures of Mount Tabor are on a completely different camera, with a completely different film, and were there simply to give you an idea of the dynamic range that film is capable of.)
I'll keep you guys updated once i get those film reels, though. Thanks for tuning in!
