However, don’t expect the point-and-shoot convenience of a digital camera.Īs the name suggests, rollfilm is a roll of film that is wound into a spool along with a backing paper. There is also quite a variety of cameras from SLRs to fixed-lens rangefinder types, and not all are fully manual, mechanical machines as, latterly, automation did find its way into the medium format camera world. But medium format adds a bit more to the experience with the handling of rollfilm and the camera operations, particularly with boxform cameras. For anybody contemplating getting into (or getting back into) film photography, 35mm looks like the obvious choice as there is a huge selection of cameras to choose from, either second hand if you want an SLR or a rangefinder type, or new if you want something a bit quirky. And there' seemingly enough interest to keep this going. While the choice of rollfilm stocks is certainly a lot smaller than it was when medium format was the choice of manyprofessional photographers, the old favourites are still available in B&W, colour negative and colour transparency. It certainly tempered any enthusiasm for spending a reasonable amount of money on, say, a classic Hasselblad. ![]() When I last wrote about at the options for shooting with medium format film cameras back in 2016, there was a bit of a question mark over the continued availability of rollfilm.
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