I've had various Minolta 16 cameras since the early 1980s, when I could still buy preloaded film at most cameras stores (and some pharmacies).  The original film length was 20 inches, according to the original cartridge reloading instructions that came with the film in those days, and a factory load would give 20-22 exposures (frame counter goes to 20).

And you can avoid the hassle of slitting if you buy 16 mm movie film -- in one of the 10x14 cameras like that one, it doesn't matter which side of the cassette you load the perfs, but it's good practice to load with the film perforations toward the cassette bridge; that way they'll be out of the frame if you use the film in a newer camera with the 12x18 frame (or a Kiev with its 13x17).  In the 10x14 cameras you can even use double perfed 16 mm (or double 8, which comes as a 16 mm strip that's slit into two 8 mm strips after developing).  Ilford FP4+ and HP5+ are both available in 16 mm, as is Foma R100, all of Kodak's Vision3 stocks, plus at least a couple B&W stocks from the Great Yellow Father.

So cool! These cameras are so fun to shoot with. I’ve been developing black and white film with Cafenal and it’s the cheapest to do! Also getting some slide film movie film works really well with this camera,Processing in e6 at home too!

Those are some great looking negatives! 👍

A fast film combined with a small aperture (22mm/16  = ~1.3mm) and small frame size is certain to give a characteristic look to the resulting photos. Tweaks in processing (developer choice, push/pull, etc) are also immediately more evident than in larger formats like 35mm.

I never really appreciated just how 'fast' ISO 400 film is until I started using subminiatures and cine cameras. Daylight exposures often call for stopping down to f/11 or f/16 even with a top shutter speed of 1/500s. Cine cameras often have fixed 1/30 shutters, Minox a fixed aperture, Minolta fixed focus, and the Mamiya... well the Mamiya does it all.

Great submini series so far -- these film cameras are more fun than a Pokémon caught in a Bubblegum Crisis. 😛

I have a CLA’d Minox C. It cool to have a fully working spy camera. I found that 400 ISO is very grainy for 8x11mm film that the Minox cameras use.

Now I’m trying 100 ISO instead.

You got some great shots!

oh that grain is BEAUTIFUL. HP5+ is amazing. Try some Panp 50 and FP4 sometime that might tighten up the grains a little for higher "resolution", maybe even try kodak tmax 100 or even cinema film. I'd really love to see some cinema film through this

part of me wants a minolta 16, the other part of me just wants a minolta 110 Zoom SLR >.>

could you also use 16mm cinema film??? :o