Kodak Baby Brownie Special image by Süleyman Demir (Image rights)

The Kodak Baby Brownie Special is a tiny Bakelite medium format film box camera made by Kodak in Rochester, NY, USA. It was produced between September 1938 and 1954. This was largely a replacement for the Kodak Baby Brownie, adding an optical viewfinder. Images were 4x6.5cm on 127 film.

The body was made in two halves, held together by a sliding latch either side for film loading; the front panel carried the shutter, lens and film transport, the back box just the viewfinder and red window. ^[1], ^[2]

SpecificationsEdit

• Lens: meniscus lens f/11
• Focus range: 5 feet to inf
• Focusing: fixed focus
• Shutter: rotary, one speeds, about 1/40
• Cocking and Shutter release: by the same knob, on the left lower part of the front plate
• Winding knob: on the right of the top
• Viewfinder: reverse telescopic finder, remowable
• Flash PC socket: none
• Cold-shoe: none
• Self-timer: none
• Engraving on the back cover: Made in USA by Eastman Kodak Co. Rochester
• Tripod socket: none
• Hand grip lugs
• Body: bakelite; Weight: 180g
• Serial no. none

Notes and referencesEdit

1. ↑ McKeown's p.478
2. ↑ Collectors Guide to Kodak Cameras p.110

Links Edit

• Baby Brownie Special @ The Virtual Camera Museum
• Baby Brownie Special on Chuck Baker's Brownie-Camera.com (including the Manual)
• Baby Brownie Special on OneTwoSeven.com
• Baby Brownie Spécial on www.collection-appareils.fr by Sylvain Halgand