. Recently, someone wrote in asking people to tell us about their first camera. I didn’t respond but I was motivated to do some research and find a picture of my first camera. It was a Kodak Baby Brownie Special. The Baby Brownie cost $1.00 and the Special cost $1.25. Mother splurged on the Special. I think it was for my eleventh birthday, about 81 years ago. The Special was distinguished by the glass viewfinder and the white button that actuated the shutter. It used 120 black and white film, eight exposures per roll. An aside: printer manufacturers today practically give their printers away and make a killing selling the ink. I believe Kodak might have been the pioneer of that strategy, selling cameras at low prices and making all their profit on the film. Anyway, it was a decent little camera and I used it for years. My daughter-in-law is sorting through old albums now so I will ask her to find some of my old pictures and I will scan them and bore you with them later.
sgt hop
Loc: baltimore md,now in salisbury md
RichKenn wrote:
. Recently, someone wrote in asking people to tell us about their first camera. I didn’t respond but I was motivated to do some research and find a picture of my first camera. It was a Kodak Baby Brownie Special. The Baby Brownie cost $1.00 and the Special cost $1.25. Mother splurged on the Special. I think it was for my eleventh birthday, about 81 years ago. The Special was distinguished by the glass viewfinder and the white button that actuated the shutter. It used 120 black and white film, eight exposures per roll. An aside: printer manufacturers today practically give their printers away and make a killing selling the ink. I believe Kodak might have been the pioneer of that strategy, selling cameras at low prices and making all their profit on the film. Anyway, it was a decent little camera and I used it for years. My daughter-in-law is sorting through old albums now so I will ask her to find some of my old pictures and I will scan them and bore you with them later.
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i still have mine...it used 127 film....
RichKenn wrote:
. Recently, someone wrote in asking people to tell us about their first camera. I didn’t respond but I was motivated to do some research and find a picture of my first camera. It was a Kodak Baby Brownie Special. The Baby Brownie cost $1.00 and the Special cost $1.25. Mother splurged on the Special. I think it was for my eleventh birthday, about 81 years ago. The Special was distinguished by the glass viewfinder and the white button that actuated the shutter. It used 120 black and white film, eight exposures per roll. An aside: printer manufacturers today practically give their printers away and make a killing selling the ink. I believe Kodak might have been the pioneer of that strategy, selling cameras at low prices and making all their profit on the film. Anyway, it was a decent little camera and I used it for years. My daughter-in-law is sorting through old albums now so I will ask her to find some of my old pictures and I will scan them and bore you with them later.
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Thanks Rich for your post. If your interested in seeing images of and stories of member's first cameras, search my topic..."Show us your first camera from back in the day".
EJMcD wrote:
Thanks Rich for your post. If your interested in seeing images of and stories of member's first cameras, search my topic..."Show us your first camera from back in the day".
Yes, I read it with interest but I didn't get around to responding. Sorry.
sgt hop wrote:
i still have mine...it used 127 film....
Yeah, you are right. My bad memory.
RichKenn wrote:
Yes, I read it with interest but I didn't get around to responding. Sorry.
Good grief. There was no need for you to apologize for anything. Glad you found it interesting.
sgt hop wrote:
i still have mine...it used 127 film....
In the late 1940"s, when I was nine or so, my parents bought me my first camera - a Kodak Brownie. Loved it!
I was 7 or 8 when I got mine. And it did use 127 film.
sgt hop
Loc: baltimore md,now in salisbury md
RichKenn wrote:
Yeah, you are right. My bad memory.
no problem...i didn't mean it to be nasty......
The Baby Brownie was my second camera after my Univex that used #00 film. In between, I used my parent's Kodak Autograph with a small sliding door on the back and a metal stylus to make notes that appeared on the negative. It used #116 Verichrome film.
I had the same as pictured, but I do not recall if it was special or not. It might not have been new, since there was no box or other indication of 'newness', but it was MINE! I remember waiting excitedly for the return of the prints!! Got to do it myself later on. Gave away the darkroom when downsizing and now use digital...but still remember my Brownie! Also used my mother's box camera with the two view finders (top and side).
Thanks for the memories.... Bob
RichKenn wrote:
. Recently, someone wrote in asking people to tell us about their first camera. I didn’t respond but I was motivated to do some research and find a picture of my first camera. It was a Kodak Baby Brownie Special. The Baby Brownie cost $1.00 and the Special cost $1.25. Mother splurged on the Special. I think it was for my eleventh birthday, about 81 years ago. The Special was distinguished by the glass viewfinder and the white button that actuated the shutter. It used 120 black and white film, eight exposures per roll. An aside: printer manufacturers today practically give their printers away and make a killing selling the ink. I believe Kodak might have been the pioneer of that strategy, selling cameras at low prices and making all their profit on the film. Anyway, it was a decent little camera and I used it for years. My daughter-in-law is sorting through old albums now so I will ask her to find some of my old pictures and I will scan them and bore you with them later.
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My very first camera was an "Agfa Klack" no pictures of it
I have my Brownie and the strap is still intact. However, the viewfinder came unglued.
Looks a lot like my first, except mine was brown but I remember those slides to open it.
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