AndrewS Loc: Tinton Falls, NJ

In 1956, I bought a Yashicaflex twin-lens reflex camera in Yokohama on my way to this country. It was a simple all-mechanical camera, because of its simplicity there is no metering system to go bad, no old batteries to leak/rust, etc.

Recently I found it in one of my storage boxes, I was surprised I did not throw it away.
Now I am tempted to try it out. I have difficulty in buying just one roll of 120mm color negative film. I tried B&H and Adorama in NYC.

I would appreciate it very much if someone can give me some leads/suggestions.

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RWR Loc: La Mesa, CA

freestylephoto.biz/category/3-Film/Color-Negative-Film

GoofyNewfie Loc: Kansas City

Great find!

It’s just 120 film, not 120mm.
I see it in multiple packs too, but not single rolls. Probably not enough profit with one,
but as mentioned above, FREESTYLE has a few.

$14 a roll? Wowzers!!
"CineStill 50 Daylight Fine Grain Color Film 120 Medium Format is boasted to be the world’s finest grain film! CineStill 50D is an ISO 50/18° speed daylight balanced (5500K) motion picture emulsion. Technology borrowed from from Hollywood's wunderkind, Kodak 50D, prepped and rolled for safe C-41 standard development as an ISO 50 film.

The new and improved proprietary "Premoval" process makes motion picture film safe to process in standard C-41 photo lab chemicals or at home. This emulsion is optimized for a hybrid workflow, ideal for scanning, and when processed in C-41 chemistry it can be optically printed on RA-4 paper. Treat this film as a 50 ISO film when processing in C-41 and push process whenever needed."

Black & White is a lot more reasonably priced if all you want to do is check exposure:
https://www.freestylephoto.biz/category/2-Film/Black-and-White-Film?attr%5B%5D=1-1

There is this from Adorama in a single roll:
https://www.adorama.com/czlf4120lc19.html

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

I've shot CineStill, but not in 120 and not in about 20 years as 35mm. It's really nice, unique film. You have a lot of options at B&H, cheaper than $14 / roll, but not individual rolls that I noted.

Leitz Loc: Solms

Anyone with minimum intelligence knows that Adorama and B&H, as well as other vendors, sell single rolls of 120 film.

tjw47 Loc: Michigan

B&H has quite a few 120 B&W single rolls available. They have only 2 single color rolls.
Why not just get B&W for testing as the rolls are cheaper!

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

Check your PM's

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

Whether or not a person knows this piece of information has nothing to do with intelligence. I believe I am more than minimally intelligent, and I didn't know this because I have never wanted 120 film so never checked to see where it is sold.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

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Bill 45

Forget what Leitz wrote. I just check B & H at this (7-23- 20 9:00 A.M. EST) time their don't have any single roll of 120 film. That not say that some time down the road B & H will have single roll of 120 film. A single roll of 120 film only give you only 12 pictures. Yes, a roll of 120 film will cost a more than a roll of 35 film. There are members of UHH who are into 120 film and cameras, set up a post asking for information on 120 film and how to work a TLR camera. Did you check with Blue Moon on 120 film.? Don't let them get you down, good luck.

drobvit Loc: Southern NV

Try Film Photography Project

Blair Shaw Jr Loc: Dunnellon,Florida

Freestyle Photo....they carry everything.

E.L.. Shapiro Loc: Ottawa, Ontario Canada

120 Rollfilm is regularly stocked by the major dealers that have been mentioned in this thread. My favorites are some of the Kodak products that are still in manufacture. For color negative stock try Portra, it comes in ISO 160 and 400. Black and white negative film- T-Max 400 is nice- good latitude and grain structure. Fuji color negative films- Fujicolr 400 H is nice.

Color transparency film? B&H carries Ektachrome.

You Yashica camera has a surprisingly sharp lens considering its age and low original price. You have a model that is kinda rare in North America- the camera that was intended for export were trademarked Yashica A and Yashica- Mat. You will get 12 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 exposures per roll.

Unless you intend to set up a darkroom, you will need to find a lab that processes and prints C-41 materials and E-6 if you want transparencies. There are some C-41 kits that are not too messy and you can scan and print your negatives.

My first medium format camera was a Yashica Mat- I could not afford a Rolleiflex at the time, I shot hundreds of rolls with that camera. In around 1960, the New York Daily News went off 4x5 press cameras. The staff photographers were issued Rolleiflexes. They roughed them up as the did with the Speedgraphics- at $500 a unit the management opted for Yasgica-Mats instead. They purchased them by the dozens and consider the, kinda disposable a $69.95 street price- They turned out good stuff and heald up surprisingly well.

Heres a good read for you! http://www.yashicatlr.com/YashicaflexASeries.html

Enjoy you rediscovered camera!

AndyH Loc: Massachusetts and New Hampshire

Great stuff E.L.! At my first newspaper job, when I was still in high school in the late 1960s, they still had one of these in daily use. It was a big deal when they upgraded to the Mat 124, because they couldn't manage to keep light meters around (they walked off, got broken, or got lost all by themselves) and the reporters who used these on assignment couldn't manage Sunny 16. I thought the addition of a built in light meter was a very big deal!

Andy