Shooting at close range, however, you can see this simple lens’s tendency toward barrel distortion. You get used to its front-and-center placement in no time, and it moves easily. Pop up the viewfinder, frame, and slide the shutter lever. This is such a wonderful little camera to use. Given the hand-rolled nature of the film I can’t be sure something wasn’t perfect with the way the film was rolled, either. There was evidence of leaking light on my Efke 100 roll but not as strong as here. His film flowed flawlessly through my Baby Brownie.Īs you can see, however, light leaked everywhere onto these frames. But I found a fellow on eBay who cuts various 120 films down to 127’s width and respools the stuff onto 127 spools. Kodak doesn’t make Ektar or any other film in 127 nobody does. Ektar in particular has wide enough exposure latitude to make up for unsunny days and exposure vagaries from box to box.
Brownie camera screen lights vintage iso#
On a sunny day, ISO 100 film is a good fit. at f/8, or 1/40 sec at f/11, or some other similar aperture/shutter-speed combo. Such cameras tend to operate at 1/50 sec. So this time I shot Ektar, which in my experience is the best film for testing an old box. This shot of my last house was by far the best of that roll.
Or it could just be that I don’t like the look of Efke 100. So before shooting it this time I swabbed it clean with rubbing alcohol. The lens might have been dirty that’s been a common problem with old boxes I’ve encountered. I put my last roll of Efke 100 through it. I wasn’t wowed with the results. I’ve shot my Kodak Baby Brownie camera but once. Isn’t this thing just cute? Made of Bakelite and aluminum, this palm-sized box camera from the late 1930s is almost certainly the smallest ever made to accept 127 film.
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