What Does A Photo From A Brownie Camera

Brownie
Overview
Kodak Credibility No.2 Model F (1924)
Maker	Eastman Kodak
Type	box photographic camera
Released	Feb 1900
Product	1900–1986
Intro cost	$1 (equivalent to $31 in 2020)
Lens
Lens	convex-concave lens
Sensor/medium
Film format	117 roll film.
Film size	2 1/4-inch square
Shutter
Shutter	Integrated
General
Torso features	Leatherette covered cardboard
Made in	Rochester, NY
Chronology
Successor	No. 2 Brownie (1901)
References
Credibility (original model)

The Brownie was a series of cameras fabricated past Eastman Kodak. Released in 1900,^[i] it introduced the snapshot to the masses. Information technology was a basic cardboard box camera with a simple convex-concave lens that took 2 one/4-inch square pictures on 117 whorl moving picture. It was conceived and marketed for sales of Kodak roll films. Considering of its simple controls and initial price of $1 (equivalent to $31 in 2020) forth with the low price of Kodak roll film and processing, the Credibility camera surpassed its marketing goal.^[2]

Invention and etymology [edit]

It was invented by Frank A. Brownell.^[iii] The name comes from the brownies (spirits in sociology) in Palmer Cox cartoons. Over 150,000 Credibility cameras were shipped in the commencement year of production.^[4] An improved model, called No. ii Brownie came in 1901, which produced larger 2-1/4 by iii-1/4 inch photos and cost $2 and was also a huge success.^[2]

Marketing and notable uses [edit]

Kodak Brownie advertising

Brownies were extensively marketed to children, with Kodak using them to popularise photography. They were too taken to war past soldiers. As they were ubiquitous, many iconic shots were taken on Brownies.^[ii]

On 15 April 1912, Bernice Palmer used a Kodak Brownie 2A, Model A^[5] to photograph the iceberg that sunk RMS Titanic and her survivors hauled aboard RMS Carpathia, the ship she was travelling on.^{[half dozen]}

Having written an article in the 1940s for amateur photographers suggesting an expensive photographic camera was unnecessary for quality photography, Flick Post lensman Bert Hardy used a Brownie camera to phase a carefully posed snapshot of 17-yr-old Pat Stewart,^[vii] a Tiller Girls dancer, with her friend, Wendy Clarke, sitting on railings of North Pier,^[seven] Blackpool, for the encompass of Flick Post.^[8] ^[9] ^[10] ^[11]

Varieties [edit]

The cameras continued to be pop, and spawned many varieties, such as a Male child Lookout edition in the 1930s. In 1940, Kodak released the Six-twenty Flash Credibility,^[iv] Kodak's first internally synchronized flash camera, using General Electric bulbs. In 1957, Kodak produced the Brownie Starflash, Kodak'south commencement camera with a congenital-in wink.^[4]

The Brownie 127 was popular,^[12] selling in the millions between 1952 and 1967. It was a bakelite camera with a simple meniscus lens and a curved picture plane to recoup for the deficiencies of the lens.^{[ citation needed ]} Another model was the Brownie Cresta sold betwixt 1955 and 1958. It used 120 film and had a fixed-focus lens.^[xiii] ^[14]

The last official Credibility photographic camera made was the Brownie Ii Photographic camera, a 110 cartridge picture model produced in Brazil for one yr, 1986.^[15]

The Kodak Credibility Number ii is a box camera that was manufactured by the Eastman Kodak Company from 1901 to 1935.^[iv] There were 5 models, A through F, and it was the first camera to employ 120 film. It too came with a viewfinder and a handle.^[16] The Brownie Number two was made of a selection of three materials: cardboard, costing U.s.a.$2.00, aluminum, costing Usa$2.75, and a color model which cost US$ii.50. It was a very popular and affordable photographic camera, and many are however in use by motion picture photographers.^[17]

Gallery [edit]

Credibility No. 2 (1901–1935)
Kodak Brownie No. 2A, Model A (1909-1911), used past Bernice Palmer aboard RMS Carpathia
No. 2 Folding Autographic Brownie (1915–1926)
Beau Brownie camera (1930–1933)
Eagle Brownie Wink Model (1950–1961)
Brownie Flash III (1957–1960)
Young lensman using a Brownie 127

References [edit]

^ List of Brownie models at George Eastman House Archived April 2, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
^ ^a ^b ^c Lothrop, Eaton S. (January 1978). "The Brownie camera". History of Photography. ii (1): ane–10. doi:10.1080/03087298.1978.10442948.
^ U.Due south. Patent 725,034
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Gustavson, Todd (2011). 500 Cameras 170 years of photographic innovation. Sterling Signature. ISBN978-1-4027-8086-eight.
^ "No.2A Brownie". The Credibility Camera Page. BCG Film & Photography. Retrieved 29 Jan 2022.
^ "Bernie Palmer's Story". Considering of Her Story. Smithsonian. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
^ ^a ^b "OBITUARY: Pat Stewart". The Times. May 20, 2017. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
^ "Film Cameras: A Brief History, And Stellar Images Created With It | THE Brownie TARGET Six-20 (1946-1952)". Forbes Bharat . Retrieved 10 March 2022.
^ "Photography Masterclass : Bert Hardy". Galerie Prints. 13 November 2015. Retrieved ten March 2022.
^ "Blackpool Railings Bert Hardy". Getty Images . Retrieved 10 March 2022.
^ "The Story of Pat Stewart, the Blackpool Belle in the Polka Dot Clothes, 1951". VINTAGE EVERYDAY . Retrieved 10 March 2022.
^ "Brownie 127"
^ "Brownie Cresta". The Brownie Camera Folio. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
^ "Brace Yerself– The Kodak Brownie Cresta Ii Review". Canny Cameras. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
^ "Brownie II (110 Cartridge) The Last Brownie Camera". The Credibility Camera Page. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
^ Gustavson, Todd (2009). Camera A history of photography from Daguerreotype to Digital. Sterling Signature. ISBN978-1-4027-5656-6.
^ "No.ii Brownie". The Brownie Photographic camera Page. Retrieved 9 May 2021.