Kodak Baby Brownie Special
images by Süleyman Demir
The Kodak Baby Brownie Special is a tiny Bakelite medium format film box camera made by Kodak in Rochester, NY, USA. It was produced between September 1938 and 1954. This was largely a replacement for the Kodak Baby Brownie, adding an optical viewfinder. Images were 4x6.5cm on 127 film.
The body was made in two halves, held together by a sliding latch either side for film loading; the front panel carried the shutter, lens and film transport, the back box just the viewfinder and red window. [1], [2]
Specifications[]
- Lens: meniscus lens f/11
- Focus range: 5 feet to inf
- Focusing: fixed focus
- Shutter: rotary, one speed, about 1/40
- Cocking and Shutter release: by the same knob, on the left lower part of the front plate
- Winding knob: on the right of the top
- Viewfinder: reverse telescopic finder, removable
- Flash PC socket: none
- Cold-shoe: none
- Self-timer: none
- Engraving on the back cover: Made in USA by Eastman Kodak Co. Rochester
- Tripod socket: none
- Hand grip lugs
- Body: bakelite; Weight: 180g
- Serial no.: none
- came out in 1939
- discontinued in 1954
- lens: meniscus
- Shutter: rotary
- Price range:$30-$60
Notes and references[]
- ↑ McKeown's p.478
- ↑ Collectors Guide to Kodak Cameras p.110
Links[]
- Baby Brownie Special @ The Virtual Camera Museum
- Baby Brownie Special on Chuck Baker's Brownie-Camera.com (including the Manual)
- Baby Brownie Special on OneTwoSeven.com
- Kodak patents, over 1,200 patents related to Kodak cameras.
- Baby Brownie Spécial on www.collection-appareils.fr by Sylvain Halgand
- Kodak Baby Brownie Special picture and additional information at "Antique_Camera_Guy's" Flickr Photostream