Daddy's Vintage Camera

[Glenn NK]

The Brownie Hawkeye was my first camera; got it when I was 13 years old. I think I fell in love with it.

It didn't provide much in the way of controls; shutter release on the right front (the grey one with the grooves). On the left side was a button that could be lifted up to do a time exposure - trouble was there was no timer - had to guesstimate how long to keep it up to keep the shutter open.

Focusing? Fixed focus lens. (and people complain that their AF doesn't track fast enough!)

Aperture? One. (don't worry about DOF - you get what you get).

Shutter speed? Fixed. (don't worry about stopping action, it won't).

Waist level viewfinder.

I still use my 30D - it seems pretty sophisticated, and gives much better images.

Glenn

[Colin Southern]

Unfortunately, I do have a little bad news for you... even if you were to find film for it, there looks to be a rather nasty crack right through the middle of the picture taking lens, so I don't know if you'd be able to get any quality shots from it.

Have you seen this Bill?

[Colin Southern]

Pardon me for I don't know onto where to post this. Absolutely not for People and Pets, not Nature and Architecture

Hi Al,

The full description of the Nature and Architecture forum is actually "Landscapes, wildlife, architecture and all other photography"

No problem to have it here though

[ktuli]

Have you seen this Bill?

Colin,

I had seen that and thought it was pretty interesting. However, I don't think that theory works on a TLR like this. In the SLR lens in that article, there are a number of elements in that lens, and only the front element is cracked. In that TLR, there *is* only one element in the lens. I could be wrong, but I believe that it would cause much more of a problem than that smashed front element would in that other lens.

- Bill

[Melkus]

Yep I remember the Brownie Hawkeye was very young at the time but Mom and Dad had one. Here a photo of us kids and mom tooken with a Hawkeye by Dad way back then

[jupiterlush]

Yep I remember the Brownie Hawkeye was very young at the time but Mom and Dad had one. Here a photo of us kids and mom tooken with a Hawkeye by Dad way back then

Nostalgic Melkus, and I like it. Dad has a lot of photos of us and his family way back then. I've kept some of it and it's nice going back in time and looking at this pictures taken with this camera.

[Melkus]

Btw I was the one setting on wall did'nt know what I had in my hands.

[rickroma]

deluxe Cool Steve! You've got fine vintage camera collection! I wish I could something like that! And you're right, they're precious, more precious than jewelries. Thanks for sharing. +1000

[jupiterlush]

deluxe Cool Steve! You've got fine vintage camera collection! I wish I could something like that! And you're right, they're precious, more precious than jewelries. Thanks for sharing. +1000

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