somehow I can’t past the url I wanted, but it is a black cube of plastic.
On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 12:52 PM Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
https://sonc.com/roy_rogers.htm--
The brownie Hawkeye I have is a simple no focus snapshooter, a simple twin
Lens reflex. I got it about seven years old and still have it.
Mine is cleaner than this, but like it. It used 620 film same as 120, but
fully backed with paper, film frame numbers on the paper, visible thru a
little red window, you could use flash and even do time exposures.
SonC
On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 12:35 PM Peter Stevens <
dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Good morning to everyone. Does anyone here have any recollections ofRegards,
using a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera?
Yesterday, while sorting through the last of my parents boxes of photos
and documents, I came across a paper pouch containing b&w negatives of a
size I had never seen before. The negatives were “family life” shots from
when my family, before I appeared, lived in Peru around 1954 - 1956. The
film stock was just a hair wider than 2 ¼ inches and was cut in frames of
about 4 inches in length. I tracked the Kodak film stock dimensions down to
either #161 or # 616, and the web site that I was using listed the Brownie
Hawkeye as being one of the models that would have accepted these films. I
then went and found what the Hawkeye looked like, and I have memories of
seeing and handling such a camera in their attic decades ago, but that was
long before I had an interest or a basic understanding of photography.
My question for anyone regarding the use of those simple box cameras was
how an image was sighted, since there appears to be no focus mechanism on
the outside of the body. The only knobs appear to be to advance the film
stock, and then there’s a grey push-button for I guess the shutter release.
There is a curved, or domed glass-like element on the very top of the
front, immediately in front of the carry strap - its almost like a prism,
from what I can make out. On the front of the box there are two ports - one
for a lens and the other, immediately above it, for another round
prism-like piece of glass. I’m guessing that the round front glass above
the lens is a part of some type of basic viewfinder assembly that works
with the prism on top - but that is purely speculation.
I’d like to know for certain how that little camera worked as I think it
would explain a lot as to why most of the images in the negatives look
blurred/unfocused. I guess those little devices were not as
“action-tracking” friendly as David’s Oly EM2 or Howard’s Nikons…and Mom,
it appears, was trying to keep up with a dog and three little kids running
around a Pacific coast beach. :)
Any explanations would be welcomed. Thanks.
Best regards,
Peter S------
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