Photography

SleeplessinSoCal

(9,120 posts) Wed Mar 13, 2024, 05:28 PM Mar 13

Anyone else have a Kodak Brownie Box Camera?

Back in the day. In reading about Frank Herbert I discovered he had one as a 10 year old. That is about the age I was decades later when I got mine.

Loved it and this video really brings back the joy of that camera. Hosted by a kid!

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Anyone else have a Kodak Brownie Box Camera? (Original Post) SleeplessinSoCal Mar 13 OP

Got one! usonian Mar 13 #1

My family had one of those when I was a kid. ShazzieB Mar 13 #2

Reminds me of that twilight zone episode Chipper Chat Mar 13 #3

Parents did Rebl2 Mar 13 #4

The video I posted shows you how to load it. SleeplessinSoCal Mar 14 #5

i have a whole collection of them! Gato Moteado Mar 16 #6

Cool! the video I posted shows you how to load the film. SleeplessinSoCal Mar 16 #7

usonian

(9,806 posts)

1. Got one!

Reply to SleeplessinSoCal (Original post)

Wed Mar 13, 2024, 05:55 PM

Mar 13

My childhood photos were taken with a Brownie Reflex. Dad worked for a magazine where reporters used Speed Graphics. Too bad he didn't borrow one!

ShazzieB

(16,399 posts)

2. My family had one of those when I was a kid.

Reply to SleeplessinSoCal (Original post)

Wed Mar 13, 2024, 06:49 PM

Mar 13

I have all the old family pictures, many of which were taken with that camera. The first photos I ever took myself were taken with it. I don't know what happened to it, except that it was not among my parents' belongings when they passed. They got rid of a lot of stuff when they moved from Illinois to Georgia in 1979, to retire in warmer weather and closer to my mom's siblings. If they still had the Brownie camera by then, I'm pretty sure it didn't make the trip.