Thanks, Sonny. I gotta say that those were some unhappy looking party attendees
surrounding you - were you intentional not cutting the cakes to aggravate them?
:)
Best regards,
Peter S.
On Apr 11, 2020, at 1:52 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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
<mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Good morning to everyone. Does anyone here have any recollections of 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,
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