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...
28 August, 2025
Brownie 2A – a final follow up.
Browenie 2A and mask to match 120 film width.
16 August, 2025
Box Brownie No. 2 Special – the last 120 Box Brownie.
Kodak No. 2 Brownie Special. Rollei 80S.
1 August, 2025
Box Brownie model 2A.
The Kodak Box Brownie 2A and adapting it for 120 film.
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...
19 June, 2023
Zeiss Box Tengor 56/2 – Pinnacle or SwanSong?
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...
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...