How Much Is A Kodak Brownie Camera Worth

Brownie
Overview
Kodak Brownie No.2 Model F (1924)
Maker	Eastman Kodak
Blazon	box photographic camera
Released	February 1900
Product	1900–1986
Intro cost	$ane (equivalent to $33 in 2021)
Lens
Lens	convex-concave lens
Sensor/medium
Film format	120 gyre film.
Film size	2 1/4-inch foursquare
Shutter
Shutter	Integrated
Full general
Body features	Leatherette covered cardboard
Made in	Rochester, NY
Chronology
Successor	No. 2 Credibility (1901)
References
Brownie (original model)

The Brownie was a series of cameras made by Eastman Kodak. Released in 1900,^[1] it introduced the snapshot to the masses. Information technology was a bones cardboard box camera with a simple convex-concave lens that took ii 1/4-inch foursquare pictures on 120 roll moving-picture show. It was conceived and marketed for sales of Kodak roll films. Because of its simple controls and initial toll of $one (equivalent to $33 in 2021) forth with the depression price of Kodak roll film and processing, the Brownie camera surpassed its marketing goal.^[2]

Invention and etymology [edit]

It was invented by George Eastman.^[3] The name comes from the brownies (spirits in sociology) in Palmer Cox cartoons. Over 150,000 Credibility cameras were shipped in the start yr of production.^[4] An improved model, called No. 2 Brownie came in 1901, which produced larger 2-ane/4 by 3-1/four inch photos and price $2 and was also a huge success.^[2]

Marketing and notable uses [edit]

Kodak Brownie advertisement

Brownies were extensively marketed to children, with Kodak using them to popularise photography. They were also taken to war by soldiers. As they were ubiquitous, many iconic shots were taken on Brownies.^[2]

On 15 April 1912, Bernice Palmer used a Kodak Brownie 2A, Model A^[5] to photo the iceberg that sunk RMS Titanic and her survivors hauled aboard RMS Carpathia, the ship she was travelling on.^[6]

Having written an article in the 1940s for amateur photographers suggesting an expensive camera was unnecessary for quality photography, Picture Post photographer Bert Hardy used a Brownie camera to stage a carefully posed snapshot of 17-year-old Pat Stewart,^[7] a Tiller Girls dancer, with her friend, Wendy Clarke, sitting on railings of North Pier,^[7] Blackpool, for the cover of Movie Mail service.^[eight] ^[9] ^[10] ^[11]

Varieties [edit]

The cameras connected to exist popular, and spawned many varieties, such as a Boy Scout edition in the 1930s. In 1940, Kodak released the Six-20 Flash Brownie,^[iv] Kodak'south beginning internally synchronized flash camera, using General Electrical bulbs. In 1957, Kodak produced the Brownie Starflash, Kodak'southward beginning camera with a congenital-in flash.^[4]

The Credibility 127 was popular,^[12] selling in the millions between 1952 and 1967. It was a bakelite camera with a elementary meniscus lens and a curved pic plane to compensate for the deficiencies of the lens.^{[ citation needed ]} Another model was the Credibility Cresta sold between 1955 and 1958. Information technology used 120 picture show and had a fixed-focus lens.^[13] ^[14]

The last official Credibility camera fabricated was the Brownie 2 Camera, a 110 cartridge moving-picture show model produced in Brazil for one year, 1986.^[15]

The Kodak Brownie Number 2 is a box camera that was manufactured past the Eastman Kodak Company from 1901 to 1935.^[4] There were v models, A through F, and information technology was the first photographic camera to employ 120 moving-picture show. It also came with a viewfinder and a handle.^[16] The Brownie Number 2 was made of a pick of three materials: paper-thin, costing Us$2.00, aluminum, costing United states of america$two.75, and a colour model which cost United states of america$two.fifty. Information technology was a very popular and affordable camera, and many are yet in use past film photographers.^[17]

Gallery [edit]

Credibility No. 2 (1901–1935)
Kodak Brownie No. 2A, Model A (1909-1911), used past Bernice Palmer aboard RMS Carpathia
No. 2 Folding Autographic Brownie (1915–1926)
Swain Brownie camera (1930–1933)
Hawkeye Brownie Flash Model (1950–1961)
Brownie Wink III (1957–1960)
Young lensman using a Brownie 127

References [edit]

^ Listing of Credibility models at George Eastman House Archived Apr 2, 2016, at the Wayback Automobile
^ ^a ^b ^c Lothrop, Eaton S. (Jan 1978). "The Credibility camera". History of Photography. ii (1): one–10. doi:10.1080/03087298.1978.10442948.
^ U.Due south. Patent 725,034
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Gustavson, Todd (2011). 500 Cameras 170 years of photographic innovation. Sterling Signature. ISBN978-one-4027-8086-eight.
^ "No.2A Brownie". The Brownie Camera Page. BCG Film & Photography. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
^ "Bernie Palmer's Story". Because of Her Story. Smithsonian. Retrieved 29 Jan 2022.
^ ^a ^b "OBITUARY: Pat Stewart". The Times. May twenty, 2017. Retrieved ten March 2022.
^ "Film Cameras: A Brief History, And Stellar Images Created With It | THE BROWNIE TARGET Six-twenty (1946-1952)". Forbes India . Retrieved ten March 2022.
^ "Photography Masterclass : Bert Hardy". Galerie Prints. 13 Nov 2015. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
^ "Blackpool Railings Bert Hardy". Getty Images . Retrieved 10 March 2022.
^ "The Story of Pat Stewart, the Blackpool Belle in the Polka Dot Dress, 1951". VINTAGE EVERYDAY . Retrieved 10 March 2022.
^ "Credibility 127"
^ "Brownie Cresta". The Credibility Photographic camera Page. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
^ "Brace Yerself– The Kodak Brownie Cresta II Review". Canny Cameras. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
^ "Brownie Two (110 Cartridge) The Terminal Credibility Camera". The Brownie Camera Page. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
^ Gustavson, Todd (2009). Photographic camera A history of photography from Daguerreotype to Digital. Sterling Signature. ISBN978-1-4027-5656-6.
^ "No.2 Credibility". The Brownie Camera Page. Retrieved nine May 2021.