Eastman Kodak Brownie Twin 20

I started this forum for any collecting hobby and it turned into my camera collecting and using forum. I use it mostly to keep a record of my photo adventures. Nobody but me seems to have photo adventures that visit here....but however. I have so many cameras now that I forget which is which and which ones work and which ones don't. If you have cameras and adventures you would be welcome to post here.

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Eastman Kodak Brownie Twin 20

Post by Niner » Thu Dec 01, 2022 2:23 pm

I had this one a while and I couldn't find any evidence that I had put film through it so today seemed like a good day to try it out. This $11 camera was made by Kodak in America but was assembled for some reason in the UK. Maybe UK workers in 1959 to 64 would work for less than a dollar an hour...which was the US minimum at the time. In any case it had three aperture selections. The camera seems to call them Color, B&W and Kodak and number them consecutively in the teens. I had to try each. Seems one notion is that the three choice correspond to 11,16,22. In a point and shoot box camera there isn't much difference produced using these depth of field choices. The attached image of the same target shows the choices larger to smaller aperture.

One thing this camera would do was that you turned the 620 film until the one comes up. Then you lock the counter and then the subsequent numbers would lock in at the proper distance. You had two view finders. One straight ahead and the other the look down from on top view of what is straight ahead.

I had a light problem with the film. I think I didn't have the 120 film wrapped tight enough on the 620 spool. Whatever. It's all an adventure.
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