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Box Camera

27 December, 2025

Benson Dry Plate Co. Street Camera – Adventures with Instant Street Photography

By Chad Hill

Over the last few years I have been fascinated by the amazing story of Afghan Box Cameras. If you are not familiar with them, Afghan Box Cameras are a category of “instant...
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28 August, 2025

Brownie 2A – a final follow up.

By Tony Warren

Browenie 2A and mask to match 120 film width.
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16 August, 2025

Box Brownie No. 2 Special – the last 120 Box Brownie.

By Tony Warren

Kodak No. 2 Brownie Special. Rollei 80S.
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1 August, 2025

Box Brownie model 2A.

By Tony Warren

The Kodak Box Brownie 2A and adapting it for 120 film.
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21 July, 2025

Box Brownie No. 2 – 1888 and all that

By Tony Warren

Review of Box Brownie No. 2
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22 January, 2024

Klito no. 2 hand camera – That time when I revived a camera from 1906.

By Tony Warren

I wrote an article in 2001 about an almost 100 year old camera. Revisiting it now just over 20 years later I am staggered at the progress that has been made with digital equipme...
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19 June, 2023

Zeiss Box Tengor 56/2 – Pinnacle or SwanSong?

By Tony Warren

The box camera must be one of the longest running types ever produced. Niécephore Niépce used one to make the very first photographic image in the 1820s and Fox Talbot and Dague...
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3 March, 2023

Ensign All Distance – A Box Camera from 1927 – By Tony Warren

By Tony Warren

When an Ensign All Distance camera from 1927 came up on the local auction site, a wave of nostalgia saw me thinking about revisiting my first, very basic, box camera. Having own...
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