Brownie (camera)

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Brownie was the name of a long-running and extremely popular series of simple and inexpensive cameras made by Kodak. The Brownie popularized low-cost photography and introduced the concept of the snapshot. The first Brownie, introduced in 1900, was a very basic cardboard box camera with a simple meniscus lens that took 2¼-inch square pictures on 117 rollfilm. With its simple controls and initial price of $1 USD, it was intended to be a camera that anyone could afford and use. The camera was named after Palmer Cox's popular cartoon characters.

One of the most popular Brownie models was the Brownie 127, millions of which were sold between 1952 and 1967. The Brownie 127 was a simple bakelite camera for 127 film which featured a simple meniscus lens and a curved film plane to reduce the impact of deficiencies in the lens.

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• The Brownie Camera Page
• The Brownie camera @ 100: A celebration
• Kodak Brownie Target Six-20: A Review
• The Kodak Brownie Hawkeye — Surprenant Photography