Can you put any 35mm film into a camera?

Question

I have a Minolta Freedom Tele and I was wondering if I could put, say, Lomography 35mm film into it that gives it that funky colors and such or if it's just for Lomography 35mm cameras.

Answer 1

Yes, any 35mm photo (not motion picture) film will fit in any 35mm photo (not motion picture) camera.



Please read more about the basics of how to purchase 35mm film:



http://www.flickr.com/groups/filmphotographer/discuss/72157627197810939/



If you want "funky colors," you needn't buy Lomo brand film, which is just repackaged film made from other companies and the price is marked up.



If you want your film to be red scale, buy any Kodak or Fuji C41 film, a film changing bag. Inside the changing bag, you can take the film out of its cans, reverse it and roll it back into the canister backwards.



If you want your film to be cross processed, just buy any Kodak or Fuji E6 film and have it processed at any mini lab in C41 chemistry.



If you want b&w, shoot b&w film. Kodak bw400cn and Ilford XP2 can be processed at 1 hour labs.



If you want expired film, buy some Kodak Ektar, Kodak Portra or Fuji Pro and let it sit on the dashboard of your car or somewhere else there is a lot of sun for a couple weeks or months.



If you want light leaks, open the back of your camera every once in a while, very briefly, through the roll.



If you want lots of grain, underexpose the film by two or more stops.



Lomography is nothing more than a company that capitalizes on experiments and accidents photographers have been doing and having for a hundred years. You just need to learn more about film in order to learn to do these things deliberately. In some cases, just buying Lomo film or their cameras will not even actually create these effects.



Have fun!



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Answer 2

The Olympus Trip AF 50 is a 35mm film camera, so 35mm film will work in the camera. The camera's lens has a focal length of 28mm.

Answer 3

Lomography film does not give 'funky colors'. It is just ordinary film, possibly repackaged out of date film, that Lomography Inc. lies about to sell it for higher prices.

Any 35mm film will fit into any 35mm camera. If you want 'red scale' as they call it, find some way of rolling any color print film from one cassette to another in the dark (absolute dark!) so that the film will go through the camera upside down so to speak, ie with the emulsion side facing away from the lense. Or you could just experiment using coloured filters meant for black and white photography - red, yellow, orange, blue, green etc.

Other odd color effects arise when color films are processed in the wrong developers. Priocessing colour slide film in a standard colour negative developer will introduce a yellow/green cast and whack the contrast up. Processing negative film in slide chemistry can give really odd results.

For real off the wall colour, try colour infra-red slide film!

Answer 4

There is no Lomography film. It's the same film other cameras use. Your only limitation is the size. 35mm is the most popular. Check if the camera indeed uses 35mm film. The other (less popular) size is 120 for medium format cameras. There are other much larger sizes but rarely encountered by mere mortals like us.

Answer 5

If it's proper 35mm it should fit. The entire deal will be the sprocket holes. If they're correctly located the film should be fine.