In Recent weeks ive been getting a tad bored with Digital Photography. Experiencing the limitations that made me hold off on buying digital SLR’s for so many years. Digital Camera sensors still cannot produce a decent  film like quality in low light / long exposures or even produce multiple exposures on the same frame.  Other things missing from digital is TRUE IR (infrared) which can only be done using IR film. (Digital Cameras can be modified to take IR like images however rendering the camera useless for anything else)

So I started to investigate full manual film cameras again. However these days the only decent film cameras available new are hi end pro cameras such as the Leica M7 or a range of medium format cameras such as the Hasselblad 500cm or 202FA costing up to 5-6 thousand dollars for the body alone.

Then I remembered I had an old working 1959 Box Brownie Flash II in storage. A very simple camera costing $14 back in 1960, and very basic controls such as two shutter speeds of 1/50sec or Bulb setting. No batteries or automation, just hand wind, 2 view finders, one for portrait one for landscape and a pull out ‘closeup’ lens .

The Kodak 620 film is no longer made by Kodak however some Photography shops will still supply 120 film respooled onto 620, otherwise you will have to respool it yourself in a dark room or bag.

I would love to get my hands on a medium format Hasselblad however in the mean-time Ill be playing with this over the next few months and see what I can get out of it, and post them online.

See all the Box Brownie Photos here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/monkwhy/sets/72157624525298012/