People under a certain age will not even know what a camera film is. And every year this number will increase, until at some point in the future no-one know will know (or more likely no-one will care) what is meant by the words "camera film".
I wonder how many people remember the old camera formats, such as 110, where you had the tiny film strip. This is my early recollection of camera film from my youth, that and the other smaller format 126.
More recently there was APS (Advanced Photography System), where you could choose one of three image sizes for your photographs from the same film! Doesn't sound that advanced now does it?
35mm film is probably the most commonly used camera film format now, as it was back in the day. There are larger formats, such as 10" * 8" (commonly referred to as large format), and 5"* 4" (commonly referred to as medium format), which are still used by high end professional photographers, but even these are being replaced with digital versions, similar sized cameras but with digital backs.
It is interesting that in the evolution of photography from film to digital, the 35mm format has pretty much remained a constant. Digital SLRs come with different sized sensors. A full frame sensor is exactly the same size as a 35mm negative would be - 24mm * 36mm.
Why? Any size could surely have been chosen, but what we have is exactly the same as what we had before!!
I will explore this question, which is quite a fundamental one to me in the evolution of digital photography, in a future article.
Thanks for reading, and if you have any questions feel free to contact me via my website links.
Rick McEvoy
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