simple film strip stacker, several formats

Stack (freshly scanned) film strips.

This is a bunch of things i quickly whipped up while digitizing thousands of old negative strips. This kept them neatly stacked until i stored them away again.

This thing doesn’t use fillets, so yes, you can break off the side plates, if you want to. Just don’t do it. Feel free to design something more stable and sophisticated if you need it. And yes, the lids are just a cuboids. They work fine.

There is a bunch of versions, for different film sizes and strip length.

• 120 (60 mm medium format) for 20 cm strips. This one was too big for my printer and you have to glue the left and right parts together. Not pictured
• 135 film (called »Kleinbild«¹ in German) six picture strips as you got in the 1960s. Left and right, too.
• 135 film six picture strips stacker in one piece. (Or two, if you count the lid.) You can use it when you have a big printer.
• 135 film five picture strips (1970s)
• 135 film four picture strips as they are common nowadays. Well, were when people still did silver based photography. I have lots and lots of films of this size, and so this holder is higher than the other.
• 135 film single pictures (slides)
• 126 or large Instamatic film, four picture strips.
• 110 or Pocket Instamatic film, five picture strips. This one has feet or plates to keep it from falling over
• Minox 9.2 mm spy camera strips for roughly eleven pictures, with feet, too.

This should cover most film formats commonly used smaller than sheet film. If you need other sizes, you should use OpenSCAD on your own computer. This was a quick hack, and i cba to make this work with the customizer.

»Sechser-«, »Fünfer-« and »Vierer-« in the STL file names is German for “for six”, “for five” and “for four”.