RichinSeattle

Joe, I'll give you $15 for the Brownie. (That should cover shipping.)

I still recall my grandmother using one, and I still have the yellow box it came in. PM me for paying & mailing arrangements.

Rich

tnturk Loc: Gallatin Tennessee

It’s all about condition but $40 range is pretty close


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Brownie Target Six-20
Kodak Brownie Target Six-20 Camera

Type: Box Rollfilm
Introduced: July 1946
Discontinued: May 1952
Film Size: 620
Picture Size: 2 1/4 X 3 1/4"
Manufactured: United States
Lens: Meniscus
Shutter: Rotary
Numbers Made: ?
Original Price: $3.50

Description:
The Brownie Target Six-20 is a metal box type camera with 2 brilliant view finders and the distictive vertical line art-deco design on front panel. It featured a sliding f/stop tab for a choice of around f/11 or f/16 and a "B" setting tab for time exposures. This camera was developed from the Target Brownie Six-20.

Fun Facts:
The Brownie Target Six-20 Camera was a very popular camera. Though the total number of these cameras that were made is somewhat of a mystery, it surely was up there with the most made models. The Brownie Target Six-20 is still popular among film photographers because of the 620 film size, which is easily respoolable. I'm particularly fond of the front design.

Click here to see the manual for this camera.

Click here to download a free copy of the manual for this camera.

Pepsiman Loc: New York City

The Target was my first camera. I payed $1.00 for it in the late 1940s...

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pepprdog

I would love to have the Brownie!!
My grandfather taught me how to take pictures with his many many years ago.

ronpier Loc: Poland Ohio

Please do not throw out photographic history. Give them away to someone who will preserve them in a collection.

Pixeldawg Loc: Suzhou, China

Hey there,

I teach photography at a college in China and would love to have them. I can give you cash and an American address to ship them to. You can e-mail me at mark.lent@xjtlu.edu.cn or PM me here and let me know how much you want for the cameras and shipping.

Mark Lent

no12mo

OH! PLEASE! Don't throw that Brownie out... If no one else is interested, I am. My Mom had one of those. Is it complete inside? - that would include the take up spool.

No frozen parts like the winder and shutter? Here's my version of the 620. Works fine, no pinholes in bellows

Shirley Iodice

I gave my old film camera to a photography student. She needed it for her studies. The students have to learn about film cameras as well as digital. Glad someone made use of it.

Bill P

Glad some believe that. Many don't largely because we are a nation of old women and are deathly afraid of the chemicals.

And yes, some chemicals are dangerous if the powder is inhaled or if liquids are drunk, but please, ir you are that dumb, you shouldn't be doing film photography or many other things, like driving cars.

I don't know of any schools in my area that still use film. It's sad. The students would be better photographers if they learned some of the basics using film that are not know to digital only photographers.

DBQ49er Loc: Dubuque, IA

We had a darkroom when I was in high school, in fact I had a classmate take our wedding pictures. I built things and he worked in the dark so to speak if you know what I mean. I did not take my first photography until I was in college. Still did not develop my own film just focused on the picture. So as far as I am concerned, we still need to focus on the pic. Yes, learn the camera and how it works and you can PP to tweak the results like working with chemicals and wands but we do not need to teach the chemicals any more. I don't think people want to crank on the handle on the front of the car anymore either.

Beenthere

[quote=Bill P]Glad
I don't know of any schools in my area that still use film.

Their are several schools that teach film before addressing digital. A couple of the shops here in the southdwest, actually buy older film cams for this very purpose.

Do more research and stop it with the blanket insults already.., nobody wants to waste time fighting with you

no12mo

May I respectfully ask this: why are we going into the dark room, chemicals rabbit hole? That's a great topic on its own merit. There is an outfit called "thedarkroom.com" who will handle any kind of exposed film.

Just find a home for these old cameras and suggest they use this outfit and then later if they want to get a darkroom going fine.

Find a home for these great cameras

BebuLamar

If you shoot film and you don't go to the darkroom is similar to you shoot RAW and hand the RAW file to the lab for converting and printing.

Shirley Iodice

My husband and I took a trip to Italy a few years back and I met a man who was taking photos with a film camera. He said to me “ there is nothing like a film camera”. He never moved into the digital world. “ One man’s junk is another man’s treasure”. Nothing wrong with that, right?

no12mo

My apologies for using the wrong quote. I meant to quote the comment about darkroom, chemicals etc. That line below the post that separates the post from the "Quote Reply" still gets me.