Old Kodak camera photos

[Terry McDaniel]

Anyone else still use any of the old Kodak cameras? I bought a Brownie Hawkeye a few years ago and have used it some. Hard to avoid camera shake, and tricky to compose, but it is a fun camera to use. Here’s a couple of shots from it, developed in Caffenol. First of s a street performer in Ardmore, OK. Second is Travertine Creek at the Chickasaw National Recreational Area.

 

[gjl711]

I started oh so long ago with a Kodak 104 Instamatic. I have recently scanned some of the images and they are terrible. My uncles truck back when I was maybe 12 or so? He taught me to drive it. I got pretty good with it. Sort of became the lot pet. The other drivers would toss me their keys and ask me to go get their truck.
gjl0016-m1 by photog711, on Flickr

 

[Terry McDaniel]

Cool! What year and make is this truck.

 

[gjl711]

Don't know the year, probably late 1950s. It was already old when my uncle bought it. The truck is a Mack. Not sure of the model, maybe a H63. It had a dual stick 12? 13? speed. I never got it out if the first couple of gears. However, poking around youtube, I found this and it's pretty much what his truck had. Not sure if the pattern is identicle, but I remember sometimes you needed to use both hands.

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[Terry McDaniel]

And I thought I was cool cause I could do a 2 speed axle on school buses and farm trucks!

 

[gjl711]

And I thought I was cool cause I could do a 2 speed axle on school buses and farm trucks!

I know, it's crazy, right? I don't think I could do it any more though, that was long ago. I only had like the first 3 gears memorized anyway. They never let me got much over 10~15 mph at most.

 

[StephenM]

I've still got (I think) my Kodak Brownie Flash 20 camera. Two and a quarter square negatives on the now defunct 620 film. I don't still have my Kodak Specialist Master 2 half plate camera though.

I don't have any photos from them.

 

[Terry McDaniel]

I've still got (I think) my Kodak Brownie Flash 20 camera. Two and a quarter square negatives on the now defunct 620 film. I don't still have my Kodak Specialist Master 2 half plate camera though.

I don't have any photos from them.

You can use 120 film, you just need a 620 take up spool, and trim the edges of the film roll. 3D printed spools are available on the internet.

 

[StephenM]

I know, but the probable quality! I did put a roll of 120 film through my Coronet two and a quarter by three and a quarter box camera in the summer of 1968 and was appalled at the low quality of a 10x8 enlargement from such a comparatively large negative compared to the same size print from my 35mm Exakta Varex IIB.

 

[Terry McDaniel]

Two more from my Hawkeye: grape harvest at my in-laws vineyard in Lebanon, OK and a feed mill in Davis, OK

 

[mjp3210]

A photo (cropped from the original 2 1/4 x 2 1/4) of a Casey's gas station. Taken with a 1950s Brownie Hawkeye Flash in 2010. I used 120 film in my Brownie and it worked fine. Developed in D76 and scanned. Objects in the photo have to be pretty far away to even be remotely in focus.

 

[Terry McDaniel]

I tried to make a pinhole for the Brownie. It’s a 35mm canister lid with a 1mm hole drilled through the center then taped over the regular lens. I think I should have removed the camera lens to get the full pinhole effect. May try it again someday.

 

[Terry McDaniel]

Carpenter’s Bluff Bridge over the Red River, between Hendrix, OK and Denison, TX. Originally a rail bridge, converted to traffic when the railroad went out of business. A new bridge was built a few years ago, they saved this one for historical reasons.

 

[Terry McDaniel]

Old country church near Achille, OK.

 

[jgoetz4]

The film was in an old camera I picked up at an antique store. I'm guessing they're from the 60's.
Jim

 

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[mjp3210]

I love found film! I've developed several rolls of found film myself.

 

[mjp3210]

Here's an image that came from a roll of Kodacolor X that I got in an eBay auction. I developed the film in D76. Kodacolor X was manufactured between 1963 and 1974 and this photo looks like it's probably from the 60s. According to the seller, the film was inside a Brownie Hawkeye Flash that was bought at an auction in Oakes, ND in 2010. Check out the size of that guy's legs!