Brownie/Brownie

[Gene M]

http://www.westfordcomp.com/foundfilm/browniehawkeyesept06/

Amazing !

[edthened]

Och am excited................................reelie a am :cool:

[Captain Slack]

Does that Brownie take 620 film?  If so, might be the reason for the name change from the Six-16.  I just opened up Brownie Target Six-16 I have and it takes... 616 film!!

[connealy]

I'll have to confess that I get some pleasure from seeing and identifying old cameras which appear in vintage photos, books and films.  Pictures of them where they appear incidentally in the course of recording some social event seem especially nice.
 . . Pictures of photographers posing with their cameras are not quite so authentic in a sense as they are often done for publicity purposes.  Even less authentic are pictures of celebrities of one sort or another which show them wielding a camera.  There are some of both in the book I recently read by Charis Wilson.  There is one of Weston dramatically aiming his big view camera; his high-top boots and riding pants seem a bit improbable as a working outfit, but apparently he actually did wear the pith helmet both in Mexico and during the Guggenheim grant travels.  Another picture - less contrived - shows Imogen Cunningham shooting Charis with what appears to be a Rollei.  There is also a photo by Weston of the young Henry Fonda with a Leica around his neck; he brought it to the session unprompted, but Charis diplomatically omits any information as to the amount of film that Fonda put through the camera.

[Julio1fer]

Does that Brownie take 620 film?

Yes it does. I shot my first film ever (Verichrome Pan) in one of those, back in 1960. They have a very nice viewfinder, by the way, and picture quality is not bad at all.

[Ben]

I've got one on my shelf, that my Dad put a boat load of film through.  Thanks Gene

[Ben]

Mike theirs a great photo I saw at Disneyland taken in the 50's.  I've been looking for it since, but haven't found it.  Its a photo of probably 50-75 guests taking photos of the Disneyland characters.  

Is I remember you could see everything from Argus to Zeiss being used, and the print was large and sharp.

I'll have to confess that I get some pleasure from seeing and identifying old cameras which appear in vintage photos, books and films.  Pictures of them where they appear incidentally in the course of recording some social event seem especially nice.

[jake]

Sam and I were looking at a show in a gallery of boxing photos. The number and types of cameras ringside in these photos (from back in the day of Sonny Liston) was mouth-watering.