Brownie (camera)

The Kodak Brownie box camera, introduced in 1900, was a very simple camera that anyone could use. Equally important, at an initial cost of one US dollar, it was also a camera that almost anyone could afford. It introduced the concept of the snapshot. The camera was named after the popular cartoon characters depicted by Palmer Cox.

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Kodak - Box camera - 1900 - US - Snapshot - Palmer Cox

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The first version of the Brownie took 8 shots on a roll of 120 film in a twin-lens design of camera. The later version introduced in the 1950s, the Brownie 127, was a viewfinder camera made of Bakelite with a simple meniscus lens focussing onto a curved film plane that reduced the impact of the deficiencies in the lens. This camera used 127 film and gave 12 exposures per film.

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1950 - Bakelite - Simple meniscus lens

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