Cameras using 116 film

Kodak launched 116 roll film in 1899 together with the No. 1A Folding Pocket Kodak, and it became one of the company's most widely used film formats. The 70mm-wide film made negatives measuring 2.5 by 4.25 inches, large enough for the prints to be simply contact printed at that size. It was used in a series of box and folding cameras, such as the No. 2A Brownie box camera (which was sold from 1907 to 1936) and folding models like the No. 1A Autographic Kodak Special, which used the autographic A116 version of the film first introduced in 1914. In 1932 Kodak introduced 616 film, which produced the same image but on a thinner spool so that the cameras could be made more compact. The two film sizes were available side by side until both were discontinued by Kodak in 1984. At present, 116 cameras are generally filled with 120 film by means of spool adapters, resulting in a slightly shorter frame, or with 70mm or 65mm film which is cut down and then rolled onto the original spools.