102 years of photographic development separate this Kodak No.2 Brownie from the camera that took this photograph. This No.2, however is only 70 years old, made in Britain during the last couple of years of production. It still works - the film roll in the picture was taken last year, and it makes pretty good images considering just how basic the design was. It’s the camera for which Kodak developed the 120 roll film format - still the medium format standard today. You’d think it’d be worth something, but Kodak made 2,500,000 of the things up to 1924, so I’d guess that everyone has a No.2 Brownie somewhere in the attic. A quick look on eBay shows I’d be lucky to get £2 for it!
I’ve used several camera’s for PotD so far, including a Yashica Electro 35 rangefinder, Pentax MX and ME, Fuji 1400Z, Canon G2 and (Linda’s)G3, EOS 50E and 300D, but not this Brownie...
...yet!
