Started by Hannah Kim (@hannahk_ux) ·
35mm photo film is movie film turned sideways
6 sources · 38 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- Why is a 35mm frame 36x24mm?
- Ended at
- Film format
The Trail
- “why is 35mm film 36x24” (google.com)
- 135 film (en.wikipedia.org)
- Oskar Barnack (en.wikipedia.org)
- Leica Camera (en.wikipedia.org)
- 35 mm movie film (en.wikipedia.org)
- Film format (en.wikipedia.org)
What I came away with
Movie film runs vertically through the camera. Oskar Barnack at Leitz built a small camera around 1913 that ran the same film horizontally and used a frame twice the size of a cinema frame: 24×36. The Leica went on sale in 1925 and the format took over.
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