We took a walk around the neighborhood with the Kodak No.2 Folding Autographic Brownie.
Kodak applied the Brownie name to quite a variety of cameras. This was one of the more capable ones with zone focusing and multiple shutter speeds and apertures. The Rapid Rectilinear lens is quite good.
The Henry Mann House is just across the street from our place. It was built in 1905. The heavy wooden gate is a block north of us next to a big adobe brick house that also looks to be quite old.
2 comments:
It's nice to see good images from an old Brownie. I have bought a number of these Kodak folders over the years, and in every case but one--the Vollenda, made in Germany-- the bellows had light leaks that I could never sucessfully patch. I did, however, inherit a model c-5 No. 3 folding pocket Kodak (circa 1915) that had a sturdy, intact, red bellows, and a quality Bausch and Lomb lens. It took postcard-size negatives and has to be adapted for 120 film. Quite a challenge, especially when it comes to winding on! When I can manage this, it produces superb images.
The bellows on the early Kodak folders were of much better quality than the later ones. The lenses on the folders were generally good right from the beginning, and the simple shutters keep on clicking. It is always rewarding to shoot the old folders because they perform so much better than the general expectations for them.
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