Still Photography

Formats for still photography, or for the display of the resulting images. These formats mostly use light-sensitive materials such as film stock, or chemically-treated glass plates or paper, to capture or display images.

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Photographic film

Roll film

120 film (1901 – )
127 film (1912 – 1970s)
620 film (1932 – 1966)
828 film (1935 – 1985)

Cartridge film

135 film (1934 – )
126 film (1963 – 1988)
Agfa Rapid (1964 – 1971)
110 film (1972 – 1990s)
Disc film (1982 – 1988)
Advanced Photo System (APS) (1996 – 2004)
Single-use film camera (1948 – )

Instant film

Polaroid Type 47 (1955 – 1992)
Polaroid SX-70 film (1972 – early 1980s)
Kodak instant film (1976 – 1986)
Polaroid 600 film (1981 – 2008, 2010 – )
Polaroid Spectra / Image / 1200 film (1986 – 2008, 2010 – 2019) Polaroid 1200 colour instant film twin pack (2 x 12 exposures) (expired November 2006)
Fujifilm Instax Mini (1998 – )
Polaroid i-Zone (1999 – 2006)

Film accessories

Bulk film magazine (1970s – 1990s)


Photographs

Photographs on glass

Magic lantern (17th century – 1940s)
Ambrotype (early 1850s – 1880s)
Photographic plate (1851 – 1990s)

Jougla Omnicolore (1907 – 1912)

Jougla Omnicolore plate, 9 x 12 cm. showing an abandoned boat on a beach, taken c. 1910

Autochrome Lumière (1907 – 1955)

Paris: Aux Champs Elyseés, 1914. On glass Verascope Stereoview

Photographs on metal

Tintype (1850s – 1930s)

Photographs on paper

Carte de visite (1854 – 1900s)
Stereoview (1850s – 1920s)
Cabinet card (1863 -early 1920s)
Cigarette card (1875 – early 2000s)
Keystone View Company stereoview (1892 – 1963) Keystone Junior Stereograph – A Visit to the Farm
Pocket Rotoscope (1902 – late 1900s) Card from Imperial 'Serie XII'
Whiting Sculptoscope (1913 – early 1940s)
Vistascreen (1955 – 1960s)

Transparencies and slides

135 film slides (late 1930s – )
Filmstrip (1940s – 1980s)

Minox film slides (late 1940s – 2003)

Minox colour slide in aluminium mounting
Mère Picon Cinémagic (1950s – 1960s) Grande Vedette Mickey [Great star Mickey], disc 4
Slide carousel (1950s – 2000s)
Super slides (1957 – early 1980s) Pana-Vue Slide CA 1073 (Laka Capilano & The Lions)
Give a Show (1959 – early 1980s)

Bruguière Babycolor (1960s)

Tape-slide set (1960s – 1980s)
Show’N Tell (1964 – 1980s)
Orbis slide postcard (mid 1960s – late 1960s) Postcard with three 35 mm slides of Amsterdam. Orbis (1968)

Flashy Flickers (1965 – 1970s)

Flashy Flickers, Series C. Tomahawk, Aquaman, Wonderwoman
Audiscan (late 1960s – early 1980s) A-V Corporation, April 1977
La Belle Commpak (late 1960s – early 1980s)

3M Sound-on-Slide (1969 – late 1970s)

Kalavox sound slide (1970s)
Mupi Duetto (1970s)
Screen-a-Show (1972 – mid 1970s) Denys Fisher Toys Screen-a-Show Pink Panther cassette
Movin Pictures See & Hear Pack (1977 – 1978)

View-Master Show Beam (1980 – early 1990s)

House Martin projector (1981 – 1984)

Mr. Men Slide Projector with Mr. Jelly 2 (show no. 15) slide strip

Microphotography

Microfilm (1890s – )
16 mm microfilm (1925 – 2000s) Boeing 757 CMM 30-32, cartridge 6 of 10 (1992) 16 mm simplex microfilm in M-Type cartridge
Microfiche (1961 – 2000s)

Stereoscopy

View-Master (1939 – )
Stereo Realist (1947 – late 1980s) Two slides from a vacation at Butternut Lake in 1957
Leningrad stereo viewer (first type) (1950s – 1960s)
Sterolist (1950s – 1960s)
Radex Stereo Stories (early 1950s – 1960s) Radex Stereo Stories, "Wild Bill Hickok", slide 1
Lestrade (1954 – 1970s)
Bruguière Stereoclic (late 1950s – late 1960s)
Talking View-Master (1970 – 1981)
Talking View-Master Electronic 3-D Viewer (1984 – late 1980s)
Talking View-Master 3-D (1997 – 1998)
Orbitor 3D Viewer (early 2000s – late 2000s)