i use a brownie six - 16 as a pinhole camera and it takes great pictures. they're easy to disassemble / reassemble and yeild an unusually wide image on 120 film. the shutter mechanism will let you do timed exposures (it stays open by itself). the only problem is spooling the film, as they no longer make the correct size. 120 film however is readily available, and only a tiny bit narrower. assuming that you have a darkroom or just a dark room, spooling the film is not that big of a deal. the resulting problem from spooling the film is that the numbered framelines are no longer correct.... some of the other brownie cameras actually took 120 film and even new spools fit. aaron
this is a bit off topic, but does anybody know general ballpark shutter speeds and F-stops of old "box brownie" type cameras? dying to try one out. ------- aaron cruse / dead letter type 2555 bryant street / san francisco / california / 94110 415.970.1090 / www.swampland.org/deadletter
