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How do 4x4 and 6x6 settings effect old cameras?
So I bought an old Franka in Camden and found a role of black and white film for it.
So...the camera has 6x6 and 4x4 written on the front and I gather this is the frame size of the **** you're taking...or something to that extent.
Anyway I really want to get into photography, but by the use of older cameras only and I was wondering if someone could explain what the different frame sizes are better for.
Please explain in basics :) thankyou!
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- ?Lv 67 years agoFavorite Answer
Early cameras sported big film negatives because tiny negatives of that era did not tolerate great enlargement (blown-up). By the middle of the last century, the most popular film size was 620 and 120. Both are the same as to dimensions, only the spool size is different. Cameras that used these film sizes permitted 12 exposures (6 x 6 cm), 10 exposures (6 x 7 cm), 8 exposures (6 x 9 cm), the resulting negative sizes. A more compact camera of that era accepted 127 film. This is a smaller format and the popular negative size was 4 x 4 cm. The 4 x 4 cm camera, loaded with slide film, produced a slide called a super-slide that was viewed as superior to the smaller 35mm slide.