Independent tools for film photography

35mmA wider
point of view.

A strip of 35mm colour transparency film with blossom branches and yellow flowers, its perforations visible.
35mm transparencies · From the studio archiveMeet the back

Wide-format backs and thoughtful accessories for the film cameras you love.

Discover 135W All tools
A Hasselblad, a 135W back and three rolls of 35mm film arranged on a wooden table.
Your camera. A 135W back. A roll of 35mm film.

135W / Wide-format film backs

A new view.
The camera
you know.

Give 35mm film more room in a medium-format camera. Keep the camera you know, and find a different way to compose.

Find the 135W for your camera
The metal-version 135W back beside a roll of 35mm film.
135W · Metal version
Hands loading a roll of 35mm film into the open 135W back.

A familiar roll.
A different starting point.

See how 135W works

Camera accessories

Small parts.
Part of the ritual.

The folding metal crank and hinge on the side of a Hasselblad.
Hands turning the winding crank on a Hasselblad.

Hasselblad winding crank

Wind. Fold. Go again.

A folding metal crank for selected Hasselblad cameras. Made for the part of the process your hand already knows.

See the crank & camera fit
A white-gloved hand holds a CFML focusing screen against softly blurred green leaves.

CFML focusing screens

Where the image begins.

Before the shutter, there’s the viewfinder. Explore focusing screens for selected classic camera systems.

Find a screen for your camera

The point is
the photograph.

Something familiar.
Seen a little differently.

A black-and-white panoramic photograph of layered rooftops, stairways and buildings.
From the studio’s 135W archiveA wider frame, on film.

GrafNoct 150 / An Elevanfilm lens project

GrafNoct

More light for
the large frame.

A black-and-white portrait made with GrafNoct 150, with the sitter in focus against circles of light in the trees.
Photographed with GrafNoct 150 · Courtesy of YinanSun
The large front element and metal barrel of a GrafNoct 150 lens mounted on a Graflex camera.
GrafNoct on camera · Photo by tsukika777

150mm F/1.6 · For 4×5 and smaller formats

Let the background
fall away.

A fast portrait lens for large format. Explore shallow depth of field, give low-light work more room, and tune the soft-focus character to suit the photograph you have in mind.

Explore GrafNoct 150
An original GrafNoct project section drawing showing the lens elements, barrel and mounting interface.
From the project archive · Lens section drawing

From an idea
to a lens.

We wanted to bring something new to 4×5 photography: the possibilities of F/1.6, in a lens made for the large frame. GrafNoct grew from that ambition into a team project.

Dr. Sun leads optical design. Rayfor develops the mechanics. Our wider team manages the project and production, bringing their work together in a finished lens with a CNC-machined aluminium barrel.

Inside Elevanfilm

Film users.
Tool makers.

We’re photographers, designers and makers. The things we make start with the cameras we use and the questions they leave us with.

Today, our work centres on wide-format backs and camera accessories, using 3D printing, CNC machining and laser engraving.

Come into the studio
A workbench from the studio archive, with cameras, tools and photographs on the wall.
A member of the team assembling a component during early product development.

From the studio archive.
The workbench. The prototypes. The hands behind them.

Other ways to work with film

Beyond
the roll.

EMPSlide projectionECO810Large-format cameras

From the notebook

Still curious.

All our notes

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See you on
the next roll

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