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[V8Ian]

Brilliant job !

Well Done !

Superquag,
(long) Retired

Photo-Engraver, Process Camera & Klischograph Operator, Colour dot Etcher,
- Photo-Lithographer, > Pre-Press Technician ...... = kept fiddling Job Description as Tech. advanced...

Neither Chevai nor Tiffany look a day older, so it's not just black & white or sepia, Des.

[4bee]

Well Done !

Superquag,
(long) Retired

Photo-Engraver, Process Camera & Klischograph Operator, Colour dot Etcher,
- Photo-Lithographer, > Pre-Press Technician ...... = kept fiddling Job Description as Tech. advanced.

Thats all very well, but do you know how to use a Baby Brownie? SQ......." A WHAT?"

One wonders who thought that name up as it has connotations of soiled Baby Napkins full of ****?

Neither Chevai nor Tiffany look a day older, so it's not just black & white or sepia, Des.

Well it wouldn't be they are in colour.

[Epic_Dragon]

Thankyou I'll have to post how it looked before!

Brilliant job !

Well Done !

Superquag,
(long) Retired

Photo-Engraver, Process Camera & Klischograph Operator, Colour dot Etcher,
- Photo-Lithographer, > Pre-Press Technician ...... = kept fiddling Job Description as Tech. advanced...

[Epic_Dragon]

What a weird name indeed Do they work where you cover the hole after opening it for so long to expose the film? I love old film cameras but remember at school a box camera that film paper was put in and im sure we had to hold hands over the little hole that let light in. I just cannot remember exactly how though

Thats all very well, but do you know how to use a Baby Brownie? SQ......." A WHAT?"

One wonders who thought that name up as it has connotations of soiled Baby Napkins full of ****?






Well it wouldn't be they are in colour.

[superquag]

Little Baby here.... Uses the smaller, '127' FILM... light-sensitive dry emulsion on transparent "plastic" base, in a roll..

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Mummy / Daddy Brownie, uses '120' film, larger, 6x6cm image, wider FILM. - still in use today, if you know where to get it.- For us die-hard Luddites ! 12 or 20 shot rolls. Another format that uses this film stock is 4.5 x 6cm.
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And this is really old... GLASS plates.
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Properly stored, Olden-Days film negatives and paper prints can last for hundreds of years. Not so sure about a (cheap Chinese or expensive Chinese...) memory card or CD / DVD disc in 100 years.

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Analogue film & printing is... well, very satisfying. - It's the old story, - The Journey is as important as the Destination. a process not a push(button)

[superquag]

Thats all very well, but do you know how to use a Baby Brownie? SQ......." A WHAT?"

One wonders who thought that name up as it has connotations of soiled Baby Napkins full of ****?

Yes.

And an 'Empire Baby 127' and a 120 plastic thing...the name of which must not be mentioned....Speed Graphic (NO, you can't buy the flash-gun and make a Star Wars light sabre !) ...and 5x4 studio camera () and Twin lens reflexes, SLR's in both 35mm and 6x6 - Bronica & KIEV

AND KLIMSCH 24x20" (60 x 50cm film) and similar format ESKOFOT, and deriviatives....

Hint:_ Got very thin....WHITE hair. Product of being born middle of previous Century...

[4bee]

The Kodak range of Brownies, Baby, Box & prob others I've never heard of ie. Super Brownie, Ultra Supa Brownie, Mega Supa Brownie, Mega Ultra Supa Brownie etc , were a quite simple camera
It could have been a Box Brownie where you needed to deflect ambient light so you could see the image in the B&W view finder. A cupped hand usually did the trick. This may be the one you are thinking of?



The Baby Brownie (1935) had a sort of a spring loaded pop up viewfinder, a bit like a a rifle back sight & you aligned the proposed view through that from memory, & aligned the openings of the two inner metal frames.

It was much smaller Camera, constructed of Bakelite , which cracked very easily & thus were not very robust, which produced tiny images when developed.

Have one here in a cupboard now which belongs to 'er indoors & it was one of these given to her for her 10th Birthday during her time in Mogadishu, East Africa.
It has an Antelope Skin outer cover & strap. WOT? Haven't they all?


Ian appears to have had connections with Kodak Brownies through his Dad.

They were the bees Knees at the time & I recall every young kid in the street wanted to acquire one, Box (1901) was first choice & the Baby was the next choice, always assuming one had a choice back then & that they were available.

Not sure of the Box's construction but I think it could have been tin plate covered with Black material glued on.
Film was a 620 (?) I think. No idea why 620 it certainly wouldn't have been 620 mm or inches. Maybe the length of the film roll?

Used properly the 620 could take some great images. No hi-speed stuff though due to the lag of the mechanical shutter mechanism & the fillum type & then one had to roll the film on manually to the next position for the next shot. Things started to improve when a 35mm camera became available Colour snaps? you betcha. And the rest as they say, is History. Digital was unheard of, least to my ears, & look how far that has gone.

[scarry]

My youngest brother works with digital printing.

This pic was a scrappy looking Black and White print he enhanced.

It was taken around '57 or '58.

That was the latest model in those days

[4bee]

IMHO he did a good job. Nice & clear, balanced, interest, Colour Gradient of the murky water....... 11/10 in my book.



Then again, this is a Personal opinion not a Professional one, for I am but a humble Fridgie, not Baron or a Cecil Beaton.


Once a Fridgie always a Fridgie.





Baron (photographer) - Wikipedia

[Epic_Dragon]

Had the best day out with my horse today loving the new wheelchair