Vintage 6 x 9cm folding cameras.

120 roll film was used from it's 1901 introduction in 6 x 9cm format, or rather its imperial equivalent, mirroring plates that were available in that size. A close cousin to 120 is 620 introduced in 1932 (discontinued in 1995), the same film rolled onto a slimmer spool, the objective being to slim down camera design. One of the commonest formats to be found in vintage cameras it was used for the most primitive box cameras up to professional standard cameras. It's principle disadvantage lay in the few shots per roll, in 6 x 9cm format you get just eight shots. The format survived up until the late 1950s, although 120 roll film cameras survived largely in 6x6cm format. Fortunately the backing paper is still printed with 6x9cm frame numbers to this day.

6x9cm format cameras in the LICM collection are listed here in date order, starting with the oldest.