The Brownie Box Camera Introduced By Eastman Kodak In 1900 Had A Retail Price Of What?

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Overview
Kodak Brownie No.ii Model F (1924)
Maker	Eastman Kodak
Type	box camera
Released	February 1900
Product	1900–1986
Intro toll	$1 (equivalent to $31 in 2020)
Lens
Lens	convex-concave lens
Sensor/medium
Motion-picture show format	117 gyre film.
Film size	two 1/4-inch square
Shutter
Shutter	Integrated
General
Body features	Leatherette covered cardboard
Made in	Rochester, NY
Chronology
Successor	No. 2 Brownie (1901)
References
Credibility (original model)

The Brownie was a series of cameras made by Eastman Kodak. Released in 1900,^[1] it introduced the snapshot to the masses. It was a bones cardboard box photographic camera with a simple convex-concave lens that took 2 1/four-inch square pictures on 117 roll film. It was conceived and marketed for sales of Kodak curlicue films. Considering of its simple controls and initial price of $1 (equivalent to $31 in 2020) forth with the depression cost of Kodak gyre film and processing, the Brownie camera surpassed its marketing goal.^[2]

Invention and etymology [edit]

Information technology was invented by Frank A. Brownell.^[3] The name comes from the brownies (spirits in folklore) in Palmer Cox cartoons. Over 150,000 Brownie cameras were shipped in the first year of production.^[four] An improved model, chosen No. two Credibility came in 1901, which produced larger 2-1/4 by 3-1/4 inch photos and toll $ii and was also a huge success.^[two]

Marketing and notable uses [edit]

Kodak Brownie advertisement

Brownies were extensively marketed to children, with Kodak using them to popularise photography. They were also taken to state of war by soldiers. As they were ubiquitous, many iconic shots were taken on Brownies.^[2]

On 15 Apr 1912, Bernice Palmer used a Kodak Brownie 2A, Model A^[5] to photograph the iceberg that sunk RMS Titanic and her survivors hauled aboard RMS Carpathia, the send she was travelling on.^[vi]

Having written an article in the 1940s for amateur photographers suggesting an expensive camera was unnecessary for quality photography, Picture show Post photographer Bert Hardy used a Brownie camera to phase a advisedly posed snapshot of 17-year-old Pat Stewart,^[7] a Tiller Girls dancer, with her friend, Wendy Clarke, sitting on railings of North Pier,^[seven] Blackpool, for the cover of Picture Post.^[eight] ^[nine] ^[x] ^[11]

Varieties [edit]

The cameras continued to be popular, and spawned many varieties, such as a Male child Picket edition in the 1930s. In 1940, Kodak released the 6-20 Flash Credibility,^[iv] Kodak's commencement internally synchronized flash camera, using General Electric bulbs. In 1957, Kodak produced the Brownie Starflash, Kodak's kickoff camera with a built-in flash.^[4]

The Credibility 127 was pop,^[12] selling in the millions between 1952 and 1967. It was a bakelite camera with a unproblematic meniscus lens and a curved pic plane to recoup for the deficiencies of the lens.^{[ commendation needed ]} Some other model was the Brownie Cresta sold between 1955 and 1958. It used 120 film and had a fixed-focus lens.^[thirteen] ^[fourteen]

The final official Credibility photographic camera made was the Brownie II Camera, a 110 cartridge film model produced in Brazil for ane year, 1986.^[fifteen]

The Kodak Brownie Number 2 is a box camera that was manufactured by the Eastman Kodak Company from 1901 to 1935.^[4] There were five models, A through F, and information technology was the commencement camera to apply 120 film. It also came with a viewfinder and a handle.^[16] The Credibility Number ii was made of a choice of three materials: cardboard, costing US$2.00, aluminum, costing The states$2.75, and a color model which cost US$2.fifty. It was a very popular and affordable photographic camera, and many are all the same in use past moving picture photographers.^[17]

Gallery [edit]

Brownie No. two (1901–1935)
Kodak Brownie No. 2A, Model A (1909-1911), used by Bernice Palmer aboard RMS Carpathia
No. 2 Folding Autographic Brownie (1915–1926)
Young man Credibility camera (1930–1933)
Hawkeye Brownie Wink Model (1950–1961)
Brownie Flash Iii (1957–1960)
Immature photographer using a Brownie 127

References [edit]

^ List of Brownie models at George Eastman House Archived Apr 2, 2016, at the Wayback Automobile
^ ^a ^b ^c Lothrop, Eaton S. (Jan 1978). "The Brownie camera". History of Photography. 2 (1): 1–10. doi:x.1080/03087298.1978.10442948.
^ U.S. Patent 725,034
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Gustavson, Todd (2011). 500 Cameras 170 years of photographic innovation. Sterling Signature. ISBN978-1-4027-8086-8.
^ "No.2A Brownie". The Brownie Camera Page. BCG Moving-picture show & Photography. Retrieved 29 Jan 2022.
^ "Bernie Palmer'due south Story". Because of Her Story. Smithsonian. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
^ ^a ^b "OBITUARY: Pat Stewart". The Times. May twenty, 2017. Retrieved ten March 2022.
^ "Film Cameras: A Brief History, And Stellar Images Created With It | THE Brownie TARGET Six-20 (1946-1952)". Forbes Bharat . Retrieved 10 March 2022.
^ "Photography Masterclass : Bert Hardy". Galerie Prints. 13 November 2015. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
^ "Blackpool Railings Bert Hardy". Getty Images . Retrieved 10 March 2022.
^ "The Story of Pat Stewart, the Blackpool Belle in the Polka Dot Clothes, 1951". VINTAGE EVERYDAY . Retrieved 10 March 2022.
^ "Brownie 127"
^ "Brownie Cresta". The Brownie Camera Page. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
^ "Brace Yerself– The Kodak Credibility Cresta II Review". Canny Cameras. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
^ "Brownie II (110 Cartridge) The Last Brownie Photographic camera". The Credibility Camera Folio. Retrieved nine May 2021.
^ Gustavson, Todd (2009). Camera A history of photography from Daguerreotype to Digital. Sterling Signature. ISBN978-ane-4027-5656-6.
^ "No.2 Brownie". The Brownie Photographic camera Folio. Retrieved 9 May 2021.