The Kodak Brownie

(This post could also be considered a Safari bug report, as none of the versions of Safari (2.0.3 (417.8) included) I have display the scaled images properly, works fine in Firefox)

I ran across one of these recently, the Kodak Brownie Number 2 Model A, introduced 1904



They are basically worthless, available on eBay somewhat readily for a couple bucks plus shipping. The lens retracts into the body and the door snaps shut, making for a portable little box.

It has a universal 1/4" tripod mount on it, on the bottom and side. Interesting that this standard has lasted so long, even on today's small digital cameras there is this relatively huge amount of space taken up by the standard tripod mount. I wonder how old this standard is, the web as usual is useless for figuring out such things.

The new v570 has a sort of retro resemblance to the Brownie, I don't know if this is intentional, inspired by car manufacturers, or just coincidence, a lot of things are box shaped after all.



While researching the Brownie I found that there was a stereo version released in 1905



The v570 has two lenses, too bad they didn't mount them horizontally and add a stereo image option, that'd be kind of cool.