Talk:Kodak Brownie

Edit

I've removed :"It was the first mas produced camera to use rolls of photographic film, meaning that the photographer did not have to chage the photographic plate after each photo. In the early years, users of brownies would mail the camera back to the Kodak factory when the film roll was completed, and then Kodak would mail back the developed photographs together with the camera loaded with a fresh roll of film."

There is some confusion between the Kodak N°1 and the Brownie N°1. Since the first, the Brownies use rollfilm and are loaded by the user.

See Talk:Box camera Ericd 14:19 Mar 25, 2003 (UTC)

Clean up

I cleaned up the last graf, but is it really germane to the article? 128.248.87.60 18:14, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Licensing

What's the liscencing for the bert hardy photo? If it's available it should be on this page.

Frank Brown

I'm removing the reference to Frank Brown "The camera was named after Frank Brownell, its inventor who was a subcontractor of Eastman Kodak, and then ascribed to Palmer Cox's popular cartoon characters." According to Kodiac's website they are name after Palmer Cox, there's not mention of this Frank Brownell, could someone point me in the direction of a source for it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.246.211.130 (talk) 01:06, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Link updated

Updated Kodak link to point to Eastman_Kodak. Jaqian (talk) 11:00, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Requested move 23 December 2021

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved. (non-admin closure) Natg 19 (talk) 05:46, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

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Brownie (camera) → Kodak Brownie – Per WP:NATURALDISAMBIG. Consistent with the titles of other cameras (e.g., Kodak DC215, Kodak EasyShare P880) and usage in reliable sources (e.g., NYT). Rublov (talk) 16:11, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

• Support per nom. BD2412 T 00:06, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
• Support, unless someone more familiar with Brownie cameras explains why we shouldn't move. Hosortyr (talk) 01:38, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
• Strong Oppose, the nickname in this case was and is the common name. Long before digital and the others, Brownie was usually everybody's camera, it created the personal camera industry i.e. like when computers became personal computers. Historical significance applies to this well-known name. Randy Kryn (talk) 12:23, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

  Randy Kryn, I'm not sure I understand your opposition, as the proposed title retains the "Brownie" nickname. Per WP:NATURALDISAMBIG, parenthetical disambiguation is dispreferred when other options are available. Rublov (talk) 14:53, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

  The nickname is the common name. Simple as that (see thousands of other pages and the guideline for brevity in titles works too). Randy Kryn (talk) 14:59, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

• Support as a good use of natural disambiguation. Rreagan007 (talk) 19:16, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Example pictures

I feel this article needs one or more example pictures taken by a Brownie. I have some I could upload, but I don't know the exact model or specs of the Brownie used, so it would be preferable if someone added images where the provenance of the camera was known.----Pontificalibus 07:37, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

Infobox

The infobox for this article lists the specifications of the first Brownie model from 1900, but the image is of a model F, and it states the date it was discontinued as when the last camera with the “brownie” name was produced. This seems like it could be confusing to someone unfamiliar with these cameras. For instance, the original brownie used 117 film while other models used 120, 116, or 127. I suggest it would be better to make the infobox about brownie models in general or just the first model. Implacable18 (talk) 03:50, 28 July 2022 (UTC)