We have Leica inventor Oskar Barnack to thank for 35mm becoming the most popular format for film photography.
When he invented the Ur-Leica in 1913, he found a new use for 35mm cinema film – and invented a film format that would take photography out of cumbersome, tripod-mounted cameras and into small, pocketable camera that would revolutionise how we saw the world.
Over a century later, 35mm in still with us, even though many varieties of films have fallen by the wayside since the rise of digital. We’ve seen fantastic films like Agfa Ultra, Konica Chrome, Fuji Neopan and Kodak’s peerless Kodachrome all disappear, along with a myriad others.
But 35mm film hasn’t disappeared. Some fantastic emulsions have weathered the storm, and have continued to stay in production amid the downsizing.
I’ve been compiling this three part list over the last year or so, and noticed something – for the first time since the turn of the century, more films are appearing. We are still losing the odd film here and there, but they are being replaced by new emulsions coming from companies big and small.
When I started the first part of this round-up, there was no Ferrania P30 or Bergger Pancro 400 – two black-and-white films that have appeared in 2017. Neither was there Rollei’s Vario Chrome.
So here is a list of the 35mm films you can still buy – hopefully accurate, but I appreciate anyone who writes in to update or correct me on omissions. I’ll be updating it with every deletion – or addition – from here on in too.
Adox Silvermax
Adaox Scala 160
AdoxCHS 100 Type II
Adox CMS 20
Adox Color Implosion
Agfaphoto APX 100
Agfaphoto APX 400
Afgaphoto CT100 Precisa
Bergger Pancro 400
Cinestill 50D
Cinestill 800T
FILM Ferrania P30
Film Washi Film W
Film Washi Film X
Fomapan 100 Classic
Fomapan 200 Creative
Fomapan 400 Action
Fomapan R100
Foma Retropan 320
Part 2 – Fujifilm to Japan Camera Hunter
Fujifilm Acros 100
Fujifilm Fujicolor C200
Fujifilm Neopan 400C
Fujifilm Provia 100F
Fujifilm Pro 160NS
Fujifilm Pro 400H
Fujifilm Superia 200
Fujifilm Superia X-tra 400
Fujifilm Superia X-tra 800
Fujifilm Superia 1600
Fujifilm Velvia 50
Fujifilm Velvia 100
Ilford Delta 100
Ilford Delta 400
Ilford Delta 3200
Ilford FP4
Ilford HP5
Ilford Pan F
Ilford SFX 200
Ilford XP2 Super
Japan Camera Hunter Street Pan 400
Kentmere 100
Kentmere 400
Kodak Ektar 100
Kodak Gold 200
Kodak Ultra Max 400
Kodak Ultra Max 800
Kodak Portra 160
Kodak Portra 400
Kodak Portra 800
Kodak TMax 100
Kodak TMax 400
Kodak Tri-X
LOMOgraphy CN100
LOMOgraphy CN400
LOMOgraphy CN800
LOMOgraphy Earl Grey 100
LOMOgraphy Lady Grey 400
LOMOgraphy LOMOChrome Purple 100-400
LOMOgraphy Redscale XR 50-200
LOMOgraphy Xpro Chrome 200
Lucky SHD100
Oriental Seagull 100
Oriental Seagull 400
Orwo N74+
Orwo UH54
Revelog 460nm
Revelog 600nm
Reveolg Kolor
Revolog Lazer
Revelog Plexus
Revelog Rasp
Revelog Streak
Revelog Tesla I
Revelog Tesla II
Revelog Texture
Revelog Volvox
Rollei CR200
Rollei Ortho 25
Rollei Retro 80S
Rollei Retro 400S
Rollei Vario Chrome
I'm a New Zealander who has been living in London since the mid-1990s, shooting film seriously since the year 2000. Kosmo Foto was launched in 2012 and has since become a film brand, with the release of my first films Kosmo Foto Mono 35mm (2017) and Kosmo Foto Mono 120 (2019).
I’m doing everything I can to promote film photography in the 21st Century, and help it survive and thrive. If you want to write something for Kosmo Foto, please drop me a line at foto.dowling@gmail.com.
What about Kodak Colorplus 200? It’s not the same as Kodak Gold 200 supposedly.
All of them emulated in http://www.psdfilm.com
It seems that Fujifilm C200 may be out of production. It shows as discontinued by manufacturer on Amazon and elsewhere, and no longer appears on the Fuji website film section.
UH54 is actually “UN54”, most of the Agfa and Fujifilm emulsions you list have been discontinued, you’re missing the latest Kodak emulsions, LOMO’s line-up has completely changed and there’s this new emulsion I heard of called ‘Kosmo Mono’ that you should totally add. 😉
Needs an update, in short!