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Summary: SLR? Medium Format? Large Format negatives? Learn about different film formats you can use in this free instructional video for beginning photographers.

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Scott Vallance Scott Vallance is the owner of VIP Photographic.com.

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Guide to Photography Film Formats

Hi, I’m Scott Vallance. I am here today on behalf of Expert Village.com. If you would like to see more of my work you can go to vipphotographic.com. Today we are going to be discussing the different film formats other than 35mm. I think most folks are familiar with 35mm so we are going to talk about some of the larger formats that are used for different things. What I am showing you here is 2 ¼ format. There are several sizes of 2 ¼ format and it is measured by 2 ¼ inches from side of the film. The length of the film can be 645, 2 ¼ x 2 ¼. It can be 6 x 9 and also 6 x 7. These are the 6 x 7, comes from a RB 67 or RZ 67. This particular format is really good for catalogue work and it gives you a lot of detail. It is a role film so you can crank it through the camera fairly quickly. This is 4 x 5 format. This is a very expensive film to use. It is excellent for doing things that are going to be reproduced; very large or if you need a lot of detail. This film was considerably larger than a 35mm slide and has about 8 times the resolution of a 35mm slide. The only other film that is larger than a 4 x 5 that is currently used is 8 x 10. This is actual size of the film. This is original film. This was shot for Symphony and Company. The actual size of the film is 8 inches by 10 inches. This is extremely expensive. A lot of car shots are done with this type of thing. A lot of architecture is shot with 8 x 10. If you need a lot of detail, this is the way to go. That’s it for format. Thank you very much.

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