Tag: 127 film
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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.
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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.
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Using hand-cut 127 film
Taking a close look at some hand-cut Ektar in 127 format that I bought on eBay.
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Operation Thin the Herd: Kodak Baby Brownie
Shooting the itty bitty, teeny tiny Kodak Baby Brownie, on Ektar hand-rolled to 127 size.
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A source of fresh 127 film
A source of fresh 127 film, hand cut from 120 film by an eBay seller.
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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…
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Kodak Baby Brownie
A review of Kodak’s tiny Baby Brownie, a Bakelite box camera for 127 film.
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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.…
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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…
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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…