Film sizes and designations
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Roll film, and related cartridge-based films were available in many different sizes, some of which lasted only a short time. The most popular was the longest-lived, type 120 was introduced in 1901 by Kodak, and is still (2010) available. Film size numbers were not used by Kodak until 1913[1]. In Japan, many film sizes had alternative names; see Japanese formats.
See also: Plate Sizes
problems: Autographic
Designation | width | Typical Frame size |
introduced | withdrawn | Alt. Names | Notes | ||
Medium format | ||||||||
101 | 3½x3½" | 1895 | 1956 | Agfa H-6[2] | ||||
102 | 1½x2" | 1895 | 1933 | |||||
103 | 3½x3½" | 1897 | 1949 | Agfa K-6 | ||||
104 | 5x4" | 1897 | 1949 | Agfa L-6 | ||||
105 | 2¼x3¼" | 1897 | 1949 | Agfa C-6 | ||||
106 | 3½x3½" | 1898 | ||||||
107 | 3¼x4¼" | 1898 | rollholder | |||||
108 | 4¼x3¼" | 1898 | rollholder | |||||
109 | 4x5" | 1898 | rollholder | |||||
110 (roll) | 5x4" | 1897 | Rollholder; not to be confused with 110 cartridge | |||||
111 | 6½x4¾" | 1898 | ||||||
116 | 70mm | 2½x4¼" | 1899 | 1984 | Vulcan No. 232 Agfa D6 (6 or 8-exp)[2] |
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117 | 2¼x2¼" | 1900 | Agfa B1 (6 exp) | |||||
118 | 3¼×4¼" | 1900 | Vulcan No. 236 Agfa E6 |
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119 | 3¼×4¼" | 1900 | ||||||
120 | 22/5" 61,5mm | 2¼x3¼", 2¼x2¼", 1⅝x2¼" | 1901 | Brownie No.2; Vulcan No. 210; Agfa B2 (6 or 8 exp) 'medium format' |
"The" rollfilm, introduced by Kodak | |||
121 | 15/8×2½" | 1902 | Agfa AB-6 (6 exp) | |||||
122 | 3¼×5½" | 1903 | Vulcan No. 244 Agfa G6 (6 exp) Agfa G10 (10 exp) |
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123 | 4×5" | 1904 | Agfa J-6 (6 exp) | |||||
124 | 3¼×4¼" | 1905 | Vulcan No. 248 Agfa F6 (6 exp) |
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125 | 3¼×5½" | 1905 | Vulcan No. 250 | |||||
126 (cartridge) | 35mm | 26x26mm | 1963 | 2007 | Instamatic; Kodapak |
Cartridge film; introduced by Kodak | ||
126 (roll) | 4½inches | 1906 | 1949 | |||||
127 | 4cm | 4x4cm,4x6cm,3x4cm | 1912 | Vest Pocket film Agfa A8 (8 exp) |
Introduced by Kodak | |||
128 | 2¼×1½" | 1913 | Agfa 0-6 (6 exp) | |||||
129 | 5x8cm | 1913 | 1951 | Agfa N-6 (6 exp) | ||||
130 | 27/8×47/8 | 1916 | Agfa M6 (6 exp) | |||||
220 | 6cm | 6x6cm | 1965 | Similar to 120, but without the paper backing, allowing double-length | ||||
616 | 70mm | 2½x4¼" | 1932 | 1984 | almost like 116 film but slimmer spool | |||
620 | 6cm (2¼") | 6x9cm (2¼×3¼") | 1931 | 1995 | A version of 120 film with a slimmer spool, introduced by Kodak, to allow smaller cameras | |||
70mm | based on perforated movie film; alternate medium format film size | |||||||
Ensign 2¼ | 6cm | 6x9cm | Ensign version of 120 | |||||
F.16 | 6.5x11cm (2½×4¼") | Ferrania version of 116 or 616 | ||||||
P16 | 6.5x11cm (2½×4¼") | Premier brand of 116 | ||||||
Rajar No. 6 | 6cm | Introduced by APeM; square-drive spool | ||||||
Selo 20 | 6cm | 6x6/6x9cm | Ilford version of 120 | |||||
Selo 27 | 4cm | 4x4cm | Ilford version of 127 | |||||
Y20 | 6cm | 6x6/6x9cm | Dufay version of 120 | |||||
Z20 | 6cm | 6x9cm | Ilford brand of 620 | |||||
35mm | ||||||||
135 | 35mm | 24x36mm | 35mm; miniature |
"standard" 35mm film cassettes with sprocket holes | ||||
Karat | 35mm | c.1936 | c.1948 | Agfa's predecessor to Rapid film | ||||
Rapid | 35mm | 1964 | Rapid-load dual-cassette system introduced by Afga | |||||
SL | 35mm | Schnell Lade; Eastern-bloc version of Rapid film; unperforated | ||||||
Bolta | 35mm | unperforated, paper-backed | ||||||
828 | 35mm | 28×40mm | 1935 | Introduced by Kodak | ||||
Ensign E10 | 35mm | 3.5x4.5cm | used by the Ensign Midget | |||||
paperbacked 35mm rollfilm |
35mm | used by Sida Extra, Liliput, and Unette | ||||||
subminiature | ||||||||
8mm | subminiature | Based on 8mm cine film. A few Japanese cameras; see 8mm film category | ||||||
9.5mm | subminiature | A few Japanese cameras such as the Doryu 1, Fujica 8×11mm SLR and the German Minox range; see 9.5mm film category | ||||||
16mm | subminiature | several film cartridge systems, for example for Edixa 16, Kiev-30 or Minolta 16 | ||||||
17.5mm | 14x14mm | 1937 | Japanese half-35mm rollfilm size for Hit-type cameras | |||||
110 (cartridge) | 16mm | 13x17mm | 1972 | 2009[3] | continued production in 2012. | |||
Disc film | 8x10.5mm | 1982 | c.1990 | |||||
IX240 | 24mm | 30.2x16.7mm | 1996 | APS | Introduced by Kodak, Fujifilm and others |
Links
- History of Kodak Roll Film Numbers on Walker Mangum's Kodak Collector site
- Negative Sizes by Mischa Koning's Kodak Classics
Notes
- ↑ Coe, Brian, Kodak Cameras, the First Hundred Years, Hove Foto Books, 1988, p.298
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Agfa Ansco Photographic Materials catalogue, circa 1930 reproduced at Pierce Vaubel; p11. The number in the Agfa sizes gives the number of exposures, for the most part: in some cases this has been overtaken by the introduction of half-frame or square-format cameras (thus A8 is 127 film for 8 exposures 4x6.5 cm in Agfa's only 127 camera, the Billy 0). B2 (Kodak 120) and D6 film (Kodak 116) were for some reason made in both 6- and 8-exposure rolls.
- ↑ Sayonara 110 film