What camera could have been used....

[LeeRatters]

We lost my stepdad early April and I've been scanning in a lot of old photos to make a photo book.

We've got 3x2 and 1x1 prints.

What camera could have been used for the square images in 35mm format? This was late 80's into the early 90's - I would have been a teenager and can't recall using anything too complicated like a TLR. There are photos with them in that I must have taken and photos that mum would have taken so I'm guessing it would have been fairly "point and shoot"

Any ideas?

 

[StephenM]

Link to follow

Can't copy the link. Camera wiki has a page listing 35 possible cameras for a 24x24 square frame.

 

[welshwizard645]

126 format maybe, I don't remember 35mm cameras offering a square format.

 

[PeterSpencer]

My Robot cameras take 24x24 mm frames on 35mm.

 

[lindsay]

I was thinking 126 as well. Were Kodak Instamatics still around that late?

 

[welshwizard645]

I was thinking 126 as well. Were Kodak Instamatics still around that late?

Not sure, I had a Boots 126 in 1979/80, film was available for a while. But I remember when I was a boy I wanted the Kodak and gutted to get the Boots one.

 

[LeeRatters]

Thanks Guys.

Maybe it was a 126 format camera then.

I know for a fact it wouldn't have been medium format.

 

[procutframing]

We lost my stepdad early April and I've been scanning in a lot of old photos to make a photo book.

We've got 3x2 and 1x1 prints.

What camera could have been used for the square images in 35mm format? This was late 80's into the early 90's - I would have been a teenager and can't recall using anything too complicated like a TLR. There are photos with them in that I must have taken and photos that mum would have taken so I'm guessing it would have been fairly "point and shoot"

Any ideas?

Firstly, sorry for your loss.

For the square prints, a lot of point-and-shoot cameras from the late 80s and early 90s offered a "square" or "panoramic" print option, even though they still used standard 35mm film. The lab would often crop the image during printing rather than the camera actually exposing a square negative.

If the photos were taken by different family members and nobody remembers using anything unusual, I'd guess it was a fairly standard compact 35mm camera with the prints cropped by the photo lab. It might be worth checking whether the scanned images show extra picture area around the edges, as that can be a clue.

 

[TimHughes]

@LeeRatters square sounds like my Mum's kodak pocket instamatic, I think 110? She had that from the mid 1970s and continued using it into the 1990s if i remember right.

 

[Petrochemist]

I was thinking 126 as well. Were Kodak Instamatics still around that late?

I'm sure they were, even if APS & 110 were replacing them for the typical basic camera.
I used an instamatic on a school cruise in the 80's

 

[welshwizard645]

@LeeRatters square sounds like my Mum's kodak pocket instamatic, I think 110? She had that from the mid 1970s and continued using it into the 1990s if i remember right.

Instamatics were 110 and 126; 110 were rectangular format, 126 was square.

Procutframing is not wrong....there is a possibility that the prints were cut square from 135mm film shots...unless the negs are nearby we won't know the answer.