Posted by Mike Field on March 25, 2008 at 00:31:28 from 203.129.46.29 user mikefield.
In Reply to: Re: Dick's camera (was Strickland Junction again posted by Peter H on March 22, 2008 at 15:49:43:
Dick's camera looks like a Kodak Vest Pocket, Series B --
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And I used to get very good results from my Brownie Box, which I used up until the early 1960s. It took eight exposures on 620 film, and you had to remember to wind it on if you didn't want a double exposure. (Deliberate double exposures were fun -- you could take a picture of a person standing inside a milk bottle, for instance.) I seem to remember you could alter the shutter speed to Slow or Fast (1/25th or 1/50th second, although I don't remember using this feature much) but the aperture was fixed -- essentially all you did was to point and press. It had two viewfinder systems, which you looked down at rather than through -- one on top and one on the side, so you could take landscape or portrait photos. The negative size was 3 1/2" x 2 1/4", as Peter mentions, and so contact prints, like Dick's, were perfectly viewable.
