{"id":32572,"date":"2025-10-21T01:03:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T05:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=32572"},"modified":"2025-10-19T16:37:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T20:37:42","slug":"film-formats-1930-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/film-formats-1930-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Formats 1930-60"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ensign Silver Midget (Model S\/55) 1935; Kodak 828 or 35mm roll film – courtesy of Bob Bolton<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto.<\/strong> Those of us who know only digital photography, likely never used film. For our 25th Anniversary, editor Lansdale prodded exchange member editors to offer one article each for our anniversary edition of Photographic Canadiana.<\/em><\/p>\n

The boys from ‘Down Under’ came up with this reprint from their Newsletter. It is titled “FILM FORMATS \u00a0– a retrospective (1930 – 1960)” authored by Bob Guiffre with photos by Bob Bolton. The 828 film noted at left was 35mm film without the sprocket holes and protected by a paper roll.<\/p>\n

Mr Guiffre begins his article, “The Leica was the first camera made to accept 35mm film in the\u00a0format originally decided by Oskar Barnack in 1913, the double\u00a0\u2018Academy\u2019 cine frame of 24x36mm.<\/p>\n

“There had been cameras like\u00a0the Tourist Multiple of 1912 \u2013an expensive camera taking up to\u00a0500 frames of the 18x24mm format. Three versions of the\u00a0Barnack camera, the original now known as the \u201cUR Leica\u201d, were\u00a0made; this first one is preserved at the Leitz Museum and is possibly the most valuable camera in existence.<\/p>\n

“After World War I\u00a0(1914-18) Ernst Leitz senior, the chief of Ernst Leitz Wetzlar\u00a0which up until that time had made microscopes [and a few other optical devices], decided in the\u00a0early twenties that \u201cBarnack\u2019s camera will be made\u201d.<\/p>\n

“It was probably the most significant decision in photography\u2019s history, and in 1923 a pilot series of cameras were made to test the market \u2013 numbers 100 to 130, the ‘Null’ or ‘0’ series. A number of these thirty-one cameras are still in existance.<\/p>\n

“This facet of photography\u2019s history is already well documented but it is a milestone and\u00a0the key to the most important format in modern photography\u00a0and should be reiterated.<\/p>\n

“In 1925 at the Leipzig Fair, Leitz introduced the Leica camera \u2013 the Leica I with 50mm f:3.5 anastigmat lens.<\/p>\n

“The rest is history\u2026” …<\/p>\n

Members can read the rest of Mr Guiffre’s article and see \u00a0the photos in the issue 25-3 pdf on the free members-only DVD\/Memory Stick. See MEMBERSHIP above or Membership at right to join. If you have any member related questions, drop Lilianne a note at member@phsc.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some camera collectors also collect various films and film containers. While both 2025 and our 2025 Events are nearly over, next month’s Estate Auction may have films and containers offered along with various cameras, lenses, books, etc.<\/p>\n

Closer to the Auction date (November 9), we will pin a poster on this site and show photos of the various lots as we have done in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. Those of us who know only digital photography, likely never used film. For our 25th Anniversary, editor Lansdale prodded exchange member editors to offer one article each for our anniversary edition of Photographic Canadiana. The boys from ‘Down Under’ … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[500,398,14,401],"class_list":["post-32572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-accessories","tag-camera","tag-film","tag-lens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32577,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32572\/revisions\/32577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}