film roll

Photographer's unexposed medium

A film roll is a length of photographic film wound onto a spool, used in cameras before digital photography became dominant.

The term appears both as film roll and roll of film: I found an old film roll in my grandmother's dresser.

Film rolls came in standard sizes—35mm being most common for consumer cameras—and required developing at a photo lab to produce prints.

Related

spool · canister · darkroom · disposable camera · shutter · photograph · develop · rewind · wind up · frames · sprocket · ISO · analog · vintage · old school · snapshot · cartridge · loading

Opposites
image capture/storage medium

film rollmemory card

Portable digital data chip

SD card · digital storage · flash memory · CompactFlash · flash drive

image permanence/tangibility

film rolldigital image

Pixel-based visual file

live view · RAW file · JPEG

Family

film, roll, films, filmed, filming, filmy, filmstrip, filmmaker, filmmaking

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G