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A Guide to Popular Film Formats

For over 40 years The Darkroom Photo Lab has developed literally millions of rolls of 5lm. While the lab was started in 1976, our knowledge runs deep with a
long lineage of professional photographers or working in the photography industry… experiencing every type of 5lm.

116 Film (and 616)

Introduced in 1899 and discontinued in 1984

In 1932 Kodak introduced two new negative format, 620 and 616. The 70mm wide 616
5lm format ( 2½” ×4¼” or 6.5×11 cm) was the same as the existing 116 1lm format
but the negative stock was wound on smaller spools in order to 5t smaller cameras.

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120 Film
Introduced in 1901
 120 %lm is still a very popular medium format 5lm,
especially with the recent popularity of the Holga.
The 120 5lm format was originally introduced by
Eastman Kodak for its Brownie No. 2 in 1901.

It was the main format for amateur photographers

and beginners’ cameras like the box cameras. With
the popularity of 35mm 120 5lm became a format
for professionals.

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220 Film
Introduced in 1965

220 %lm is the same width as 120, but with double length (144 cm) and thus twice
the number of exposures per roll. ISO 732 also speci5es the dimensions of 220 5lm.
Unlike 120, there is no backing paper behind the 5lm itself, just a leader and a trailer.
This allows a longer 5lm on the same spool, but as a result there are no printed
frame numbers for old cameras that have red window as frame indicator. (Moreover,
light from the window would fog the 5lm.) Also, since the 5lm alone is thinner than a
5lm with a backing paper, a differently positioned pressure plate may be required to
achieve optimal focus. Some cameras capable of using both 120 and 220 5lm will
have a two-position adjustment of the pressure plate (as well as a switch elsewhere to adjust
winding), while others will require different 5lm backs.

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620 Film
Introduced in 1932 and discontinued in 1995

620 roll 1lm is basically the same as 120 roll 5lm; it has the same width and length.
The only difference is the spool which holds the 5lm, in case of the 620 roll the core of
the spool and the end `anges are smaller than that of the 120 roll.

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127 Film
The 127 %lm is a paper-backed roll5lm, 4.6cm wide, originally designed to store eight
pictures in 4×6.5cm format. It was created by Kodak for their Vest Pocket model –
hence 127 was often called Vest Pocket 5lm. Many of the 5rst generation of 127 5lm
cameras were similar folders, and frequently inherited Vest Pocket or VP in their
names – for example the Dolly Vest Pocket. See Category: 4×6.5.

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126 Film
Introduced in 1963

The Kodapak 126 %lm cartridge is a roll 5lm magazine for 35mm-wide
5lm with a paper backing.

It was launched in 1963 by Kodak in answer to consumer complaints

about the complications involved with loading and unloading roll 5lm
cameras. With the cartridge 5lm, you don’t have to attach the 5lm leader to a take-up spool. The
cartridge simply drops into the camera. Since the cartridge is asymmetric, it cannot be loaded
incorrectly. You close the back, wind, and shoot. 126 cameras have a window to show the back of the
cartridge, which is printed with the 5lm details, and has a small hole revealing the frame number
printed on the backing paper.
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135 Film (35mm film canister)

Introduced in 1889

The 35mm 5lm format was developed and produced

at an experimental scale in Thomas A. Edison’s
laboratory in New Jersey by splitting 70mm roll 5lm.
Edison compiled his caveat for the double perforated
cine 5lm in the fall of 1889, describing it as a double
perforated long band passing from one reel to
another, driven by two sprocket wheels. The 5lm was
obtained from the Eastman Dry Plate and 5lm
Company in Rochester, NY. However, it took several years to become a regular Kodak product.

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828 Film
Introduced in 1935

828 5lm was Kodak’s unperforated 35mm paper-backed roll 5lm, introduced in 1935.
828 was intended to avoid some of the problems of the early perforated 35mm
5lms. The smaller diameter spool and lack of need for a sprocket allowed for much
smaller camera designs. Kodak’s Bantam camera series used 828 5lm.

Other paper-backed 35mm 5lm formats have included Bolta and the 5lm
Konishiroku produced for the Konilette.
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APS Film
Introduced in 1996
 As an alternative to 110 format, The APS 5lm cartridges are optimized for fully
automatic 5lm load, enclosing the 24mm wide 5lm completely when not in use.
A light proof door and partially exposed 5lms can, in certain cameras, be
removed and used later. The 5lm is even put back into its cartridge and returned
to the user after it has been developed.

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110 Film
Introduced in 1972

110 1lm cartridges were launched by Kodak in

answer to consumer complaints about the
complications involved with loading and unloading
roll 5lm cameras. Because loading 5lm was easy
and the small size made 110 format popular very
quickly.

The small negative size of 110 5lm is half the size of

135 (35mm) 5lm and because it’s small it’s dikcult to enlarge and get high resolution scans and the
5lm is often associated with prints and and scans that are grainy and lacking sharpness.

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