Kodak No. 2A Brownie Model B

This is an old Kodak box camera I've had since around 1977. It dates back to 1916 for when it was made, so it's over 100 years old! I dug it out last night with the intent of finally using it for the first time. I've used old box cameras before with 35mm film in them, but that left too much of the field of view unphotographed. I realized that 120 film all but fills up the area of view, so I put some Fomapan 400 black and white film in it to try it out. What I did was to cut some of the leader off in the dark and taped it inside the camera. By doing that, I should get more negative area to use instead of just the part where the numbers begin. It was photographed on a table at least as old as is the camera. This table used to belong to my Great-Grandmother Sullivan.

This Kodak No. 2A Brownie Model B was another old box camera I acquired through an estate auction back in the late-1970's.

A local waterway taken yesterday with one of my old Kodak box cameras. The negative area for this shot turned out to be 2.25 x 4.25 inches. Camera: Kodak No. 2A Brownie Model B (first patented in 1897) Film: Foma Fomapan 400 120 film Aperture: F/8 (It has three different ones - f/8, f/11 and f/16) Shutter speed: Approx. 1/30th sec. Date: September 2nd, 2014, 6.31 p.m. Location: Near Texas City, Illinois, U.S.A. Developing chemicals at 68 degrees F Ilford ID11 developer - 8 mins. Ilford Ilfostop stopbath - 1 min. Water rinse - 1 min. Ilford Hypam fixer - 7 mins. Water rinse - 2 mins. Kodak Brownie B Foma400 01gf

For the Saturday Self-Challenge group, whose theme this week was "Artificial Intelligence." I spent all week researching Artificial Intelligence and trying to figure out how to represent it photographically. The reason I picked a bank as my subject is because they employ AI in many ways. From the ability to accept checks deposited through a cell-phone application; helping to prevent fraud by using AI systems to learn what types of transactions are fraudulent; AI helps with credit decisions in determining the specific risk assessment for individual customers; or even to send customers text message alerts for a low balance, artificial intelligence is working in the background. I don't have anything in my house that employs AI, and since this picture was taken on film using a camera made in 1916, I think you can figure out my stance on Artificial Intelligence.

It rained so much on Friday that it was flooding. And then when the rain stopped, high winds came through. They were so strong, they blew someones trash cart into the middle of my neighbor’s yard. This was my eleventh camera. I picked it up at an estate auction. Come to find out, it was my trash cart that blew into my neighbor's yard. Camera: Kodak No. 2A Brownie Model B (made in 1916) Film: Fuji Film Neopan Acros 100 B&W (120 size) Aperture: F/16 (it has three different ones - f/8, f/11 and f/16) Shutter speed: “B” (bulb) ½ of a second Date: March 3rd, 2023, 3.12 p.m. Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Developing chemicals at 68 degrees F Adox Adonal – 1 ½ hour stand development (1:150 – 2/3 tsp. of Adonal and 500 ml of water) Water rinse – 1 minute (to keep the chemicals clean) Ilford Ilfostop stopbath - 1 minute Water rinse - 1 minute Kodak Kodafix fixer - 9 minute Water rinse – 1 minute Kodak No. 2A Fuji Acros 100 2023 03ff