# Film format metadata: 126 film format, allow setting empty value

**URL:** <https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/film-format-metadata-126-film-format-allow-setting-empty-value/8217>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [September 23, 2024, 8:31am UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/film-format-metadata-126-film-format-allow-setting-empty-value/8217 "2024-09-23T08:31:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![shutterfreak](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forums.negativelabpro.com/shutterfreak/32/4680_2.png) [@shutterfreak](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/u/shutterfreak)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 8:31am UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/film-format-metadata-126-film-format-allow-setting-empty-value/8217/1 "2024-09-23T08:31:40Z")

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I am digitizing our family inventory of film rolls.

One of the film formats is the square frame 126 format. I can’t pick it from the list of available film formats when editing the NLP-specific metadata.

My current workaround is to assign 35mm half-frame to these film rolls, however I expect to see 35mm half-frame film rolls when processing older films.

In addition, I didn’t find out how to clear an incorrectly set value for the film format field (drop-down list has no empty value).

I see that other users have similar resuests for other film formats. Would it be an option to add a preference in NLP to specify additional film formats?

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**Author:** ![Ami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@Ami](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/u/Ami)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 12:30am UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/film-format-metadata-126-film-format-allow-setting-empty-value/8217/2 "2025-07-09T00:30:25Z")

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I have the same issue… I wonder if it only requires to add another item to the drop down list, or just let the user type-in a value