Posted by Eric Abraham on October 22, 2010 at 05:24:36 user EricAbraham.
In Reply to: Re: Colour pictures of Ransome posted by Jon on October 21, 2010 at 05:26:37:
My Bantam was the basic of the basic - essentially a Brownie with an Art Deco exterior and a flat folding front - it got lost in all the moves, but I was given an identical one about twenty years ago, so I pretend it is the original one! Since it had a fixed shutter speed and aperture, Kodachrome came out a bit under exposed - but I still have those slides!
I have a collection of cameras mostly from the thirties through the sixties - most are fairly inexpensive cameras of the these times, and some so shoddily made that I doubt if they would even take pictures when they were new!
It would be interesting to know what kind of camera Dick had in the Big Six. I am sure that it would be a middle range camera with a few settings - I can't find a picture in my copy of the Big Six, although there is a picture of the flash apparatus.