Color film with a Kodak Box Brownie 620 Model D

 Even though shooting on box brownies is even less cost-effective than most shooting with film, I enjoy it.

With 35mm film, you get 24 or 36 exposures per roll.  When shooting a spool of 120, on a lot of cameras you get 12 or 16 exposures:  halfway decent.  

But with a box brownie, you get eight.

The below is with a Kodak Box Brownie 620 Model "D".  It actually takes 620 format film, not 120.  But I use the trick of using toenail clippers to make the roll of 120 fit into the "feeder" slot that's sized for 620.  But you need an actual empty 620-sized spool of 620 for the film take-up position, because the end of the rod that turns the take-up spool doesn't grip the roll of 120 sufficiently (the bar at the end of the bar is shallower and narrower than what the roll of 120 is designed for -- so it slips).  So you either have to ask the lab to save the 620 spool for you -- or you can go into a super-dark room and roll the film (once you've shot it) back onto the original roll of 120, and label it "EXPOSED"... and rubber-band it shut.  Which is what I tend to do.

Anyhow, since it's the same film-purchasing, developing, and scanning costs for shooting 8, 12, or 16 exposures -- only shooting 8 exposures costs twice as much as shooting 16... and 1.5 times as much as shooting 12.  But -- you do get some oddly large film negatives -- which is pretty cool.

 

Anyhow!  Here's what I have.  I forgot to write down the brand of film.  Obviously, color.  Probably Kodak?

Am now taking better notes on film types.  ;)

More pics of that house.

 

 

A building in downtown Brisbane.

 Straight off the presses -- no retouching. 

 

--GG