This camera has been in the Jeffers family for years. So we have had it on a shelf for years just looking at it now and then. It was about time to put time to the test. Kodak made hundreds of thousands of them. They made one in a light brown and gave them away knowing that people would have to buy film. So the pictures were shot with iIford 400 black and white film. The size is 2 1/4" x 4 1/4". You only get 8 pictures per roll. When you look at the camera box it is long and big. The film has to move from the bottom spool to the top spool and this to me is where you lose the other 4 pictures. Like the Argus 75 or the Brownie Hawkeye they are the same size film but you get 12 pictures per roll. Shooting the camera with low light was just a test to see how much light it took indoors. I know that film like this and the cameras back then took a lot of light. Mostly outdoor shooting for the old cameras. The light here was with the sun going down and coming right in the living room. But it took more light as you can see.Joanie remembers her and her sister using the camera years ago. But now she got to try it again. Nice.
This camera has been in the Jeffers family for years. So we have had it on a shelf for years just looking at it now and then. It was about time to put time to the test. Kodak made hundreds of thousands of them. They made one in a light brown and gave them away knowing that people would have to buy film. So the pictures were shot with iIford 400 black and white film. The size is 2 1/4" x 4 1/4". You only get 8 pictures per roll. When you look at the camera box it is long and big. The film has to move from the bottom spool to the top spool and this to me is where you lose the other 4 pictures. Like the Argus 75 or the Brownie Hawkeye they are the same size film but you get 12 pictures per roll. Shooting the camera with low light was just a test to see how much light it took indoors. I know that film like this and the cameras back then took a lot of light. Mostly outdoor shooting for the old cameras. The light here was with the sun going down and coming right in the living room. But it took more light as you can see.Joanie remembers her and her sister using the camera years ago. But now she got to try it again. Nice.