Can a normal studio process 120 film?

I don’t know the situation in Tripoly but where I live most places don’t process 120 film in-house. Most places that accept 120 film end up sending off for processing instead of doing it themselves.

In general when I shoot 120 film it is demanding stuff so I take my film to a pro lab that processes 120 in-house. It is expensive but I find that the results are worth it.

I have a couple of lomo cameras. I have an action sampler and a frogeye. Both are fun cameras but remember that lomos are low quality plastic cameras. The neat photos they show on their web site are not very big; when you enlarge the pictures you can tell these are not high quality cameras. I never used a Holga but I had a Diana camera when I was a kid. A gas station my dad went to gave away Diana cameras with a fill-up.

Instead of getting a cheap medium format camera consider a quality used camera. Now that digital photography is taking over there are a lot of film cameras on the market. I bought an old Koni-Omega Rapid from a retired wedding photographer cheap. The camera looks awful but it still takes wonderful pictures.

A little 120 trivia. 120 roll film is the longest lived format of film. This film was introduced by Kodak in 1901 for their Brownie No. 2 camera and has been in continuous use for over a century. At the time Kodak sold film for each model of camera so it wasn’t called 120 film; it was simply film for Brownie No. 2; the 120 designation came later. At the time 120 roll film was one of the smaller formats; in the early 20th century roll film formats as large as 5” were available; now such large frames are only available as sheet film.

Many other formats of film have come and gone but 120 remains. When 120 film became common Kodak made cameras that accepted 620 film which was the same film format but had a slightly different spool so photographers would have to buy Kodak film. 620 film was made until 1995 but photographers who have 620 cameras can carefully respool 120 film on their old 620 spools and keep using their old cameras.