Tag: 127 film

  • Happy 127 Day, and photos from last 127 Day

    Last 127 Day I shot expired Verichrome Pan in my Kodak Brownie Starmatic. At last, the results.

  • Operation Thin the Herd: Kodak Brownie Starmatic

    I do love my Kodak Brownie Starmatic, the one 127-film camera I’m going to keep in my collection.

  • Using hand-cut 127 film

    Taking a close look at some hand-cut Ektar in 127 format that I bought on eBay.

  • Operation Thin the Herd: Kodak Baby Brownie

    Shooting the itty bitty, teeny tiny Kodak Baby Brownie, on Ektar hand-rolled to 127 size.

  • A source of fresh 127 film

    A source of fresh 127 film, hand cut from 120 film by an eBay seller.

  • My first roll of film

    Down the Road is on hiatus, returning Monday, 26 September. I’m rerunning old posts in the meantime. When my grandmother gave me a quarter to buy the old Kodak Brownie Starmite II at a garage sale, I don’t think either of us could have predicted that it would spark a lifelong love of cameras, which…

  • Brownie Reflex, Synchro Model

    Because I’m way too busy getting ready for my wedding this Saturday, I’m doing some reruns this week. I thought you might enjoy the first camera review I ever wrote, published nine years ago today! When I was a kid, a Kodak Brownie Reflex, Synchro Model, found its way into my hands. I think it…

  • Kodak Baby Brownie

    A review of Kodak’s tiny Baby Brownie, a Bakelite box camera for 127 film.

  • Verichrome Pan memories

    Welcome to the 500th post on Down the Road! Shortly after I shot my first roll of film as a boy in 1976, my family moved from Rabbit Hill to a larger home on Erskine Boulevard. As summer faded into autumn I returned to Hook’s Dependable Drugs for more film, this time going for black-and-white Verichrome Pan.…

  • Shooting my Kodak Brownie Starmatic

    I normally spend every spare summer Saturday exploring the old roads, but it’s been too stinking hot! So I’ve been taking pictures with my old cameras instead. I was feeling nostalgic about 127 film after I found the negatives from my first photgraphs, which I took with a Kodak Brownie Starmite II. That camera was part of…

  • My first roll of film

    When my grandmother gave me a quarter to buy the old Kodak Brownie Starmite II at a garage sale, I don’t think either of us could have predicted that it would spark a lifelong love of cameras, which would lead to a growing interest in photography when I reached middle age. It was August of…

  • Kodak Brownie Starmatic

    It was the pinnacle of Kodak’s durable, if not quite venerable, Brownie line – a Brownie with a built-in selenium light meter for automatic exposure control. The meter fed a simple mechanical system that adjusted the aperture. The aperture maxed at f/8, the limit of its plastic Kodar lens, and the shutter fired at only one…

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