Ansco panda

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The Ansco Panda was a simple child's bakelite box camera made by the Ansco camera corporation of Binghamton, New York in the 1950s. It looks not unlike certain Kodak Brownie products and was designed to compete directly with the Brownies. The camera features a brown bakelite body with cream accents around the lenses, a cream colored wind knob and a TLR style viewing lens above the taking lens. Images are composed via a waist level viewfinder and taken by means of a traditional Ansco red shutter trigger button depressed by the right thumb. The camera produces 12 square photographs on a single roll of 620 format film (Ansco No. 20 film). Focal length of the camera is 60 mm and it has an f/16 lens. Focus is fixed and objects from about 6' to infinity are in focus. There is much interest today in collecting and using the Ansco Panda (sometimes called the Ansco Panda 20) camera.