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Paul Votava's avatar

Great read, l like the detailed run through the workings of the Brownie!

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Darin's avatar

Thank you, Paul. I have a couple of Brownie Box cameras from this same era, but I would never try to dismantle one. This one came with the front plate loose, so I was not (technically) abusing one to see the insides.

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Paul Votava's avatar

Even broken vintage cameras can serve a purpose, in this case educational😁

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Ken Barber's avatar

Now yer makin' me wish I'da kept all those old pieces of junk that collected in Dad's darkroom. They all went to a landfill decades ago.

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Juliette's avatar

I was thinking the exact same thing!

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Darin's avatar

Alas.

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Simon Bohrsmann's avatar

So interesting to see the long road to the cameras we have today. And modern cameras don't have spiders!

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Darin's avatar

It was just a little spider.

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Yulle's avatar

That was a fun journey to go through! Some of these are actually works of art themselves.

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Ralph Turner's avatar

I bet, with care, this old beauty could still produce good results🙂

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Darin's avatar

I’m sure it could, but we couldn’t sell it.

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Ralph Turner's avatar

Well... seeing as you get to keep it, um, might we see something from it on here at some point? I, for one would love to see the end result🤓

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Darin's avatar

As would I, but I have a dozen cameras standing in the queue ahead it it, so it will be awhile.

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