Photographic Film Index

The Photographic Film Index (PFI) aims to be a comprehensive database of past and present still film stocks manufactured for consumer, professional, and specialized purposes. Over the years, Film Rescue International has kept track of various discontinued and relabeled film types we receive. Robin Canham and Claire Moclock saw this data as valuable to the field of photographic conservation, as well as other endeavors involving the identification, processing, and preservation of photographic films by hobbyists, archives, and museums. They formed PFI by incorporating our data with existing resources including: The Big Film Database, Dark Room Film Index, Filmtypes, Flat Film Archive, Wikipedia List of Discontinued Photographic Films, and Fotoimpex. PFI is updated regularly. Please contact (contact name or link to a form) with corrections and contributions.

Popular Film Stocks

Most film stocks have a rich, interesting history. Below is a number of detailed articles describing many of the more popular film stocks.

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List of Film Types by Brand

1 Hour Photo 3-Rings 3M ADOX AGFA AGFA PHOTO Albinar America’s Choice American Mercantile Anfang Ansco Ansco GAF Arbor Argenti Arista Asa Astral Astrum Atomic-X Azomureș Barbie Bargain Harolds Baycrest BCG Bergger Beua Black’s Bluefire Bonusprint Boots BOOTS Border Free Brooks Cachet Camera Club of America Can Power Cappelli-Ferrania Carrete Foto Color CatLABS Certified Cinecolor Cinestill Cinestyle Clarkcolor Co-op Colorama xr Disc Film Colour Care CVS Dan-Di Dekopan Direct Film Dixon’s Doublefilm Dover Ducati Dufay Dynachrome Dynapan Eastman Econo Efke ERA Eterna expert Family Dollar Famous Brand Ferrani Ferrania Fiji Film from Italy Film Washi FNAC Focal Foma Forte Foto Fair Foto King Foto Source Fotocenter FOTOIMPEX Fotolabo Club Fotomat FOTON Fotron Fox Photo Fred’s FUDA Fuji GAF Gaytime Gevaert Gigabit Gold Circle Grants Gratispool Guardian H&W Hillvale Hinomoto Holga HomeBest ificolor ILFOcolor Ilford Image Image Link Images ImageTech Imago Imation International Iszatt Japan (?) Japan Camera Japan Camera Hunter JEROME Jessop Kamero Kentmere Kid Camera Kiku Kim Labs King Size King Size Film Kirkland Kits Kmart KMart Kmart Focal Kodak KODAK KodaK Kolor 92 Koncolor Konica KONO! Kosmo Kryptar Kwik Foto Lamagraphy Legacy Life Lifecolor Limocolor Lloyd’s Lofoto Lomography Long’s Lucky Lucky Color Lumiere Maco Macophot Made in Belgium Made in Belgum Made in England Made in EU Made in France Made in Germany Made in Italy Made in Japan Made in USA Made in West Germany Mail-a-Film Master Choice MC Micro 16 Minicord Minolta Minolts Minori Minox Mitsubishi Moto Photo MSI Mycro Film Mystic Color Negra No Name No name OINice Oriental ORWO Osco Owax P.C. Panchro Panchromatic Pathmark Peoples Perry Perutz PHAR-MOR Photoworks Pictoriographica Picture Par Plenachrome Polaroid Polypan Porst Porta Prinz Pro Max Quality Rapid Film Rave Regency Replace-a-Film Rera Retropan Revolog Revue RGB Rite Aid Ritz Rollei Safeway Sainsbury’s Sakura Santa Schleussner Scot Foto Sears Seattle Film Works Selo Shanghai Sharp Shell Signature Silberra Snap Shops Snappy’s 110 Solaris Sooter’s Spectra SPUR SS Street Candy Super 16 Super G Super Lumichrome Supersnaps SuperX Supretone Svema Tacma Target (3M) Tasma Technicolor Telecolor Tesco Thrifty Topcrest Towers Bonimart Traid TriFCA Triple Print True Color True Print Tudor Tynar Type-D Ultra-Color Ultrachrome Ultracolor Ultrafine Ultrapan Underwood Universal Univex Unknown Valca Viking Walgreens Warszawskie Zaklady Fototechniczne (WZF) Western Family Western Photo Whittaker Woolco Woolco/Woolcrest Woolco/Woolworths Yodica York Zellers

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Credits

Robin Canham transitioned from a 15 year career in academic librarianship to finishing her first year in the Master of Arts Conservation program at Queen’s University with a specialization in paper conservation. She’s also an avid bookbinder and loves incorporating photography into her work. Visit her website or follow on Instagram @burroakbookbinding.

Claire Moclock is an Archivist and Artist based in Pennsylvania. Her favorite photographic things are Polaroids, expired film, and her Nikon F3. Visit her website or follow on Instagram @mocloe.