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Film sizes compared

Something I was wondering about recently was size comparaisons of different film sizes.
I see plenty of schematic size comparaisons, but none actually provide an image to demostrate grain ect. So I decided to crop down one of my images of Botch instead.

Double 8

11 sec/meter (264 frames/meter)
7.70x crop factor
Super 8

10 sec/meter (240 frames/meter)
6.10x crop factor
9.5mm

5.52 sec/meter (132 frames/meter)
4.01x crop factor
16mm

5.45 sec/meter (132 frames/meter)
3.38x crop factor
Super 16

5.45 sec/meter (132 frames/meter)
2.94x crop factor
2 perf

4.36 sec/meter (104 frames/meter)
1.61x crop factor
3 perf

2.90 sec/meter (69 frames/meter)
1.50x crop factor
4 perf

2.18 sec/meter (52 frames/meter)
1.38x crop factor
Vistavision

1.09 sec/meter (24 frames/meter)
1x crop factor

These are all 1:1 crops of the same film (which was originally a 135 photo i.e. vistavision format, scanned with my DSLR).
Where I tried to keep the dimensions as much to spec as i realistically could.

Incidentally this also shows the differences in focal length on this 50mm, though that was not the goal here.