{"id":28343,"date":"2024-03-30T01:03:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T05:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=28343"},"modified":"2024-03-30T01:40:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T05:40:09","slug":"this-where-i-came-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/this-where-i-came-in\/","title":{"rendered":"this is where I came in …"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>

Jan 1955 ad for the Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera and optional flash<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. As kids, we sometimes missed the start of a movie at a Saturday matinee. The solution was simple – we sat through the second running until we saw what we had missed, then left …<\/p>\n

As a kid, on an early 1950s Christmas, my parents upgraded me from a 127 ‘Baby Brownie’ to a newer 620 Brownie FLASH Hawkeye. It was still a box camera and fixed focus but used a larger film and a flash! I had finally advanced my gear. The gift package included not only the camera and flash gun, but a couple of B&W 620 film rolls, batteries, some #5 flash \u00a0bulbs and a ‘safety shield’ for the flash gun – one side clear; the other blue for “colour” film.<\/p>\n

My good friend George Dunbar sent along this c1955 ad in LIFE for the Brownie Hawkeye – flash version. I enjoyed using mine through high school, but could barely afford B&W, let alone colour. \u00a0The film was developed and I joined the school camera club to do the printing – 8×10 photo paper double weight was ten cents a sheet – chemistry and enlarger use were free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. As kids, we sometimes missed the start of a movie at a Saturday matinee. The solution was simple – we sat through the second running until we saw what we had missed, then left … As a kid, on … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[973,398,14,755,2945,21],"class_list":["post-28343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-advertisement","tag-camera","tag-film","tag-flash","tag-hawkeye","tag-kodak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28343"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28370,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28343\/revisions\/28370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}