Re: [CBQ] Imagine What Travel Was Like in the Classic Era 💭

["trains@davidstreeter.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>]

I can beat you on the cheap first camera. I had a more or less cubical box with one open side. The side opposite the open side had a very cheap fixed focus lens with a very cheap shutter. It didn't need a back because when you attached a 126 film cartridge, IT was the back. There was an ear sticking off one corner with a knob to advance the film and a viewfinder sticking up at the top center of the back. I suppose I must've shot some trains with it, but I really don't remember what; probably some green E9s.

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David Streeter

On 5/24/2022 7:26 AM, Dave Lotz wrote:

>  The BSA
>       127 Camera was manufactured by the Herbert George Company of
>       Chicago, Illinois, in the late 1950s, and early 1960s. This
>       snapshot camera was constructed of plastic with the official Boy
>       Scout logo located on the front of the camera.  It featured a
>       built-in eye-level viewfinder, a fixed focus lens
>       (which partially explains the quality of my photographs), a simple
>       instantaneous shutter, two aperture settings to accommodate color
>       or black and white film, and a detachable synchronized flash.  It
>       captured exposures on number 127 roll film.

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