LETTER OF THE WEEK
Second heaven
I was interested in Gareth Houghton’s memories of the 126 cartridges ( Letters , AP 31 May). From 1963, I worked first for Sands Hunter in Bedford Street off the Strand, then Bennett Cameras of New Bond Street, Dixons of Oxford Street and, finally, Ernst Leitz in Mortimer Street before changing career direction. If memory serves me well, I think these cartridges were similar, if not the same as those used in the Kodak range of Instamatic cameras that were very popular at the time.
Another innovation of the time was the Agfa Rapid cameras, which used standard 35mm film but were ‘self-loading’, with the film feeding itself straight into another cassette, thereby avoiding the need to rewind.
For a while, I used a…