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About the Club
Welcome to the Brownie Camera Club! If you own a Brownie Camera, or happen to come across one in your attic, take a photo of it and send it in! Alternatively, if you're currently taking photos with these historical beauties, send those in as well! The sole purpose of this club is to bring together a community of Eastman Kodak Brownie Camera appreciators, collectors & photographers from all around the globe.
About the Cameras
In 1900, the Eastman Kodak Company introduced a low-priced, point-and-shoot, hand-held camera, called the Brownie. The Brownie camera was designed, priced, and marketed to have wide appeal.
The Brownie camera was a simple, black, rectangular box covered in imitation leather with nickeled fittings. To take a "snapshot," all one had to do was hold the camera waist height, aim, and turn a switch. Kodak claimed in its advertisements that the Brownie camera was "so simple they can easily [be] operated by any school boy or girl" (excerpt from an ad in Cosmopolitan Magazine, July 1900). Though simple enough for even children to use, a 44-page instruction booklet accompanied every Brownie camera.
The Brownie camera was very affordable, selling for only $1 each. Plus, for only 15 cents, a Brownie camera owner could buy a six-exposure film cartridge that could be loaded in daylight. Kodak promised to develop the film for the camera's owner, rather than the owner having to invest in materials and a darkroom.
Kodak heavily marketed the Brownie camera to children. In ads, the camera was accompanied by the very popular Brownie characters, elf-like creatures created by Palmer Cox. Ads for the Brownie camera appeared in popular magazines, rather than just trade journals. Children under the age of sixteen were also urged to join the Brownie Camera Club, a free club in which they could earn prizes for good photos and receive a Photographic Art Brochure.
No longer was taking photographs just for the professionals and only of grand events, the Brownie camera allowed the capturing of birthdays and other family events. In just the first year, the Eastman Kodak Company sold over a quarter of a million Brownies, forever changing the future of photography.
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Join
No need to send a note requesting to join. You automatically become a member when you watch the club.
Submissions
Send the club a note with the subject "Submission". Please include either a link or a thumbnail of the deviation that you wish to submit. Only submissions taken with various models of Brownie cameras are allowed. Please note that submissions will NOT be added to the club gallery. They will instead be added to our favorites. As soon as the club reaches a certain number of watchers, I'll start posting weekly journals informing members of any and all additions to the collections.
Resources
» Film for Classics
» Old Film Processing
» List of Brownie Models
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Welcome to the Brownie Camera Club! If you own a Brownie Camera, or happen to come across one in your attic, take a photo of it and send it in! Alternatively, if you're currently taking photos with these historical beauties, send those in as well! The sole purpose of this club is to bring together a community of Eastman Kodak Brownie Camera appreciators, collectors & photographers from all around the globe.
About the Cameras
In 1900, the Eastman Kodak Company introduced a low-priced, point-and-shoot, hand-held camera, called the Brownie. The Brownie camera was designed, priced, and marketed to have wide appeal.
The Brownie camera was a simple, black, rectangular box covered in imitation leather with nickeled fittings. To take a "snapshot," all one had to do was hold the camera waist height, aim, and turn a switch. Kodak claimed in its advertisements that the Brownie camera was "so simple they can easily [be] operated by any school boy or girl" (excerpt from an ad in Cosmopolitan Magazine, July 1900). Though simple enough for even children to use, a 44-page instruction booklet accompanied every Brownie camera.
The Brownie camera was very affordable, selling for only $1 each. Plus, for only 15 cents, a Brownie camera owner could buy a six-exposure film cartridge that could be loaded in daylight. Kodak promised to develop the film for the camera's owner, rather than the owner having to invest in materials and a darkroom.
Kodak heavily marketed the Brownie camera to children. In ads, the camera was accompanied by the very popular Brownie characters, elf-like creatures created by Palmer Cox. Ads for the Brownie camera appeared in popular magazines, rather than just trade journals. Children under the age of sixteen were also urged to join the Brownie Camera Club, a free club in which they could earn prizes for good photos and receive a Photographic Art Brochure.
No longer was taking photographs just for the professionals and only of grand events, the Brownie camera allowed the capturing of birthdays and other family events. In just the first year, the Eastman Kodak Company sold over a quarter of a million Brownies, forever changing the future of photography.
Source
Join
No need to send a note requesting to join. You automatically become a member when you watch the club.
Submissions
Send the club a note with the subject "Submission". Please include either a link or a thumbnail of the deviation that you wish to submit. Only submissions taken with various models of Brownie cameras are allowed. Please note that submissions will NOT be added to the club gallery. They will instead be added to our favorites. As soon as the club reaches a certain number of watchers, I'll start posting weekly journals informing members of any and all additions to the collections.
Resources
» Film for Classics
» Old Film Processing
» List of Brownie Models
Affiliates
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Thank you for the favorite, sorry it took so long to get back to you... have a great weekend!
Thank you for the favorite, sorry it took so long to get back to you... have a great weekend!
Thanks for the faves! I'm now Watching and look forward to image additions from other Brownie fans!
Thanks for the favs!!
Thanks for the fav 
Thank you for the favorite. (-:
thanks heaps for the favourite 
gotta love the good old box brownies. i think it's kinda sad that film cameras are slowly dying out...but i guess that's the evolution of things...constantly changing. throwing out the old and replacing it with new stuff
gotta love the good old box brownies. i think it's kinda sad that film cameras are slowly dying out...but i guess that's the evolution of things...constantly changing. throwing out the old and replacing it with new stuff