Roll film camera
A roll film camera is a camera that uses roll film as recording material; they replaced the plate cameras , which dominated the camera market between 1839 and around 1890.
Contrary to a widespread misconception, the Kodak No. 1 from the Eastman Dry Plate Company (then The Eastman Company from 1889 ) was not the first roll film camera, as the so-called detective camera, for example, was designed by Thomas Bolas as early as 1881 and a patent was applied for.
The roll cassette with negative paper was invented by Leon Warnerke in London, who had designed a functional camera with roll film based on collodion as early as 1875 , and from 1881 with gelatine emulsion.
Roll film cameras developed in relation to the camera design of the hand and secret cameras of the 1860s and 1870s; they also form the basis for the successful boxing cameras that were on the market between 1910 and 1960. In principle, every small and medium format camera today is also a roll film camera, since today only large format cameras work with sheet film , i.e. not rolled film.