Show us your Kodak Brownie!

[dave lackey]

😀

Yes, I must have lost my mind...right? 🙂 No, it is just that I have been working the last year pulling old family albums together and contemplating a huge scanning project. While doing so, I have been wondering what camera was used for the photos. One answer: most likely a Kodak Brownie or such.

Now I want to try one. Maybe a 620...

Who else on RFF loves Brownies?🙂

 

[davidnewtonguitars]

I love the Hawkeye that my mon & dad used, so many pictures & warm memories.
No desire to shoot one though!

 

[dave lackey]

😀

Yes, I must have lost my mind...right? 🙂 No, it is just that I have been working the last year pulling old family albums together and contemplating a huge scanning project. While doing so, I have been wondering what camera was used for the photos. One answer: most likely a Kodak Brownie or such.

Now I want to try one. Maybe a 620...

Who else on RFF loves Brownies?🙂

I love the Hawkeye that my mon & dad used, so many pictures & warm memories.
No desire to shoot one though!

Really, a Hawkeye? Which one?🙂

 

[dave lackey]

To start with, I am looking at a Vest Pocket and a Brownie 127...

My parents used the 620. I have no idea who used what for the older family photos dating back to the 1920s and before. Our families came from mill towns in Georgia and Alabama, so they did not have a lot of cash to spend on a camera but yet, the photos exist!

Some are quite ordinary and others are really well done. 🙂

 

[Mr_Flibble]

First Box camera in my collection was a Kodak No.2 Box Brownie (model F)

Then the Folding (Pocket) Brownies and Hawkeyes ans Six-20s started flooding in.

This has got to by my favorite one; Kodak No.2 FPB

Capable shooter too...

Huis Doorn Living History event 2017

 

[Greyscale]

Here is an early one from 1915 that uses 120 film.


Kodak No. 2 Folding Autographic Brownie (early version). by Mike Novak, on Flickr

And everyone's favorite 620s


Kodak Brownie Flash Six-20 by Mike Novak, on Flickr


Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Flash with close-up filter. by Mike Novak, on Flickr


Kodak Brownie Junior Six-20 by Mike Novak, on Flickr


On to 127.


Kodak Baby Brownie by Mike Novak, on Flickr


Kodak Brownie Starmeter by Mike Novak, on Flickr


Kodak Brownie Starmite by Mike Novak, on Flickr

And when you have to go bigger, 616


Kodak Brownie Special Six-16 by Mike Novak, on Flickr


Kodak Target Brownie Six-16 by Mike Novak, on Flickr

VPK


Kodak Vest Pocket Autographic by Mike Novak, on Flickr


Kodak VPK (1926) by Mike Novak, on Flickr

Big brother Jiffy


Kodak Jiffy 116 by Mike Novak, on Flickr

And don't forget the Bantams. From simple to sublime.


Kodak Bantam Doublet f12.5 by Mike Novak, on Flickr


Kodak Bantam with f4.5 Kodak Anastigmat Special lens by Mike Novak, on Flickr


Kodak Bantam Special by Mike Novak, on Flickr

 

[davidnewtonguitars]

Really, a Hawkeye? Which one?🙂

 

[Muggins]

Just one or two...
(there's a lot more than this!)
Box Brownies by gray1720, on Flickr


Personal favourite - circa 1911:
Kodak No2 Folding Pocket Brownie by gray1720, on Flickr

And, like Mr Flibble's, it's a decent performer:
Silver Wings by gray1720, on Flickr

Adrian

 

[css9450]

I always liked those. Wasn't it a Raymond Loewy design?

 

[David Hughes]

A great pity that 127 is no longer made at a reasonable price. Then I could try out my 1912 VPK and so on.

And I keep meaning to get some of those 116 film adapters (to make 120 film fit in place of a 116 film). And then there's APS...

Regards, David

 

[WJJ3]

Cool thread!

Here's my Flash IV, one of the more recent (late '50s) Brownies. These are fun cameras and are easily shootable with 120 film by cutting down the diameter of the film spool.

accidental double exposure on Provia 100

Rollei Infrared film and Fuji visible light blocking gel filter taped over the lens.

 

[carbo73]

https://flic.kr/p/GtQx6Y

https://flic.kr/p/23yz7d7

My 2nd oldest camera and it works, a Nr. 2 Brownie model D from 1914 or 15 🙂 (my oldest camera is a KVP non-Autographic from 1912-14 and it seems to work, too, with 127 film).

 

[dave lackey]

Wow!

I am impressed! I don't know where to start with wanting just one!😱

 

[Greyscale]

Kodak Brownie Bulls-eye, 6x9 on 620 film


Kodak Brownie “Gold” Bulls-Eye Flash by Mike Novak, on Flickr


Kodak Brownie Bulls-eye, Lomography Earl Grey 100 by Mike Novak, on Flickr


Kodak Brownie Bulls-eye, Lomography Earl Grey 100 by Mike Novak, on Flickr


Kodak Brownie Bulls-eye, Lomography Earl Grey 100 by Mike Novak, on Flickr


Kodak Brownie Bulls-eye, Lomography Earl Grey 100 by Mike Novak, on Flickr

 

[dave lackey]

Love these images, I bet it is fun using the vintage Brownies...

And I have to say, your camera collections are stunning!🙂

 

[carbo73]

And a final view of the CARDBOARD 😀😱😀 interior of my Nr.2 Brownie model D:

https://flic.kr/p/23yz5VY
And it's pictures:

 

[carbo73]

As nobody posts more Brownies, here's another one I have. It's a Kodak No.3 Brownie model F from 1931. Outside, inside, and one of the pictures it can take:

 

[Spavinaw]

When I was growing up our family camera was a SIX-20 BULLSEYE trapezoidal shaped made of bakelite plastic. My first real camera was a BROWNIE FLASH SIX-20 with the same shape made of steel.