When it is a BLUIE.



26th July 2014



just bought a Brownie camera, by the way not the thing I would normally buy.



but this one is Blue, how unusual.

KODAK NO 2 -120 BROWNIE

made 1918-1923

Film 116 Filmand Owner's Manual still available available
Quantity Produced 21,000,000
Country of Manufacture USA

http://www.brownie.camera/wpimages/wp2f7c56f2_05_06.jpg

i think they made 6 different variations in color between 1929-33.

camera's are an interesting subject though, leica's ect are good, some of the miniature Russian spy camera's are good aswell.

complete minefield for the novice

Originally Posted by briana5125

complete minefield for the novice

I think I am in your club on this one.

I have owned a black and now a blue.

I wonder why they are called Browney.

May be they where made on Brown Street

Home work for you Mr briana5125

find out why Browner is a Browney

they are known to be named after mythical little Scottish imp/pixie/fairy/goblin type creatures.

these creature would have been thought to be magical and small .

now as these camera's were very cheap and marketed towards children this all seems quite plausible .

naming them after an old wife's tale for children and marketing them as magical and small (which they would have been at the time) was a piece of marketing genius at the time.

along with the price of approx £1 a camera a lot of people could afford to buy one.

Originally Posted by briana5125

they are known to be named after mythical little Scottish imp/pixie/fairy/goblin type creatures.

these creature would have been thought to be magical and small .

now as these camera's were very cheap and marketed towards children this all seems quite plausible .

naming them after an old wife's tale for children and marketing them as magical and small (which they would have been at the time) was a piece of marketing genius at the time.

along with the price of approx £1 a camera a lot of people could afford to buy one.

How interesting ... thanks briana5125!
Are Brownies the cameras that used to produce very small photos? (I have some that are 2.5" and less in my 'Family History' collection that were taken in the 1930s/40s/50s).

I feel like Stephan Fry.

Top of the class Mr Briana

10 out of 10

can i also add that they make me think they were made around the start of what i would call the mass produced throwaway culture period ...

and for this reason i really dont like them

i wonder if we will see that period mentioned in future millers guide books