What Were the Old Camera Films called in the 50's,60's, 70s?

Question

WHat were the old camera films called in the 50's, 60's, and 70's, roll up film? Its like a battery kind of shape. If anyone knows, let me know thanks

Answer 1

Kodak and Polaroid used to make land camers with,
The film looked like a casette tape and you would take the photo and pull the film to get an instant picutes.

Also there was a browning or brownie camera. That took 120 mm film. It was a box type camera.

I am sure if you go to Wikipedia or E bay you could see some examples of these cameras.

Answer 2

There have been numerous roll film formats over the years, however the most popular is 120 followed by 127 as a distant second.

120 is about 60mm(2 1/4") wide. It's used not only by Brownies and the like, but also by numerous professional cameras such as Rolleiflexes, Hasselblads, and Mamiyas.

127 is about 40mm wide. It looks like a shrunk down version of 120. 127 was mostly used by Brownie and other box-type cameras, although there were a few decent cameras that used 127 including the Baby Rolleiflex and Yashica LM44.

Answer 3

The most popular film then used was 35mm, which comes in a metal "cassette". 120 & 220 roll film was also widely used in Hasselblads, preferred for fashion and wedding photography. Mamiya, Yashica, Rollei and Minolta (and many others) offered Twin Lens Reflex cameras which also used 120 & 220 roll film (120 gave you 12 exposures; 220 gave you 24). There was 4"x 5", 5" x7" and 8"x10" sheet film for press cameras and view cameras. Kodak introduced 126 Instamatic film and cameras and later the Disc film and camera (with a negative about the size of a dime you can imagine the "quality"). Kodak also introduced 110 film and cameras. Pentax and Minolta developed sophisticated SLR cameras for the 110 format.

120, 220 and 35mm was available as either slide or negative film, as were the sheet films. Sheet film users were disdainful of those using the "smaller" formats.

Polaroid offered "instant gratification" with its self-developing film. The quality, combined with the expense, kept it as a minor player in photography. Seems the average person could never quite achieve with his Polaroid camera and film what Ansel Adams did with Polaroid sheet film and his view camera. Hasselblad (and Mamiya for its RB67 camera) offered a Polaroid back so pro photographers could check lighting, posing, etc. before committing film.

Answer 4

http://members.tripod.com/camera007/kodak_v127.jpg
Was this it? It's 127 film and very popular in the 50's and 60's. You can still get it at certain stores.
http://www.freestylephoto.biz/sc_prod.php?cat_id=&pid=1000001827

Answer 5

35mm has always been the most popular. 16mm was available, but it was mainly a thing of the past by then.

Answer 6

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