Good article worth being read by all clickers.

Fun article. Thanks. The thing I really enjoy about them is that they are very simple and easy to cleanup on your own.
 
After reading this article I had to get the old Hawkeye off the shelf and dust it off. That blazing fast shutter still works too. I've had that camera since the late 50's..

I guess I'll have to spool a couple rolls of 120 onto the 620 spools and go relive my childhood..
 
Those were simpler times. I grew up in a household that relied on a Brownie Hawkeye loaded with Verichrome Pan.

No razzle dazzle technology or software needed. Just take the exposed roll to a nearby Rexall pharmacy and wait a few days.
 
Leaves me cold. Probably because I never had a box camera in my life. Even my folks did not. My dad had a TLR and my mom a folding Kodak with f-stops and shutter speeds. When I was about 10 a lady down the street gave me her old folding Kodak. 3-speed shutter (T, B,25,50,100), and a few f-stops; so I got to sneer at the other kids with their pink and blue plastic idiot cameras.

One nice thing about those old plastic boxes, the current popularity has made 620 film available again, abut expensively.
 
My father was an amature photographer and of course, I wanted to do what he did. No fool he, the first cameras I was allowed to use as a very young boy, were Kodak box cameras. I felt quite empowered.

Thanks for the link and the nostalgia that went with it.
 
Taken with a No 0 Box Brownie like the one at the head of the article.

No 100 steaming by gray1720, on Flickr

Bought off ebay, it turned out to have a roll of C41 Kodacolor in it - so someone was still using it after about 1974!

I love the minimalistic fun box cameras provide.

Adrian
 
I would love to try one out, as I never did in the past. I just don't feel like re-spooling film.
 
Very appropriate old steam tractor. If it weren't for the modern tractor in the back ground it would be hard to tell when it was taken.
 
And the other half's trousers...

I knew she was in it, wasn't sure about the tractor as a waist level view finder the size of a little finger nail is not ideal for composition!

Adrian
 
I wish I could still get 124 or 122 film for my 1920s No. 3 Box Brownie (3 f-stops, 2 shutter speeds). The 3-1/4 x 4-1/4 in. negatives were something to behold.
 
I have two old Ansco boxes. A really old one from 1925 or so which has T&I shutter settings, and a choice of two apertures, and a 1930s Agfa-Ansco one which has flaps inside that convert it into a half frame camera, and a built in portrait lens that allows "close ups" of five feet.

Half frames with the agfa-ansco:
Dilapitated Corner Store by Epicyclic Transmissions, on Flickr

Water tower with the ancient Ansco:
Water Tower by Epicyclic Transmissions, on Flickr

Of course when they were new you'd only do contact prints (or at most double the size in an enlargement) so the simple lenses did a lot better. Now that huge enlargements are the norm the softness is much more noticeable.
 
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