Box Camera Archives

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...

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...

30 June, 2021

Kodak Brownie Hawkeye – A Review of Mum’s Camera – By James Hanes

By James Hanes

First a confession: That photo isn’t Mom’s Kodak; but it’s just like it. Using a 1950's Kodak Brownie Hawkeye model with either 120 or 620 film and a bulb flash is easy and rewa...

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