Film Camera Types/35mm Film
Point and Shoot
Vintage Single Lens Reflex
Cons:
- Batteries for light meters can be hard to find
- Fungus in lenses due to age
- You have to be an informed consumer to get a good camera
Contemporary Single Lens Reflex
Cons:
- Batteries are expensive
Vintage Rangefinder
Medium Format Cameras/120/220mm Film
Medium format cameras are unique in that different cameras create negatives of different sizes, even though they all use 120/220mm film. The smallest medium format negative is 6 x 4.5, followed by 6 x 6, and the largest medium format negative is 6 x 7. You can guess the size of the negative by the camera name. The Mamiya M645, for example, creates the smallest medium format negatives of 6x4.5 cm.
Mamiya M645 (6x4.5 negative)
Circa 1960s through 1970s
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