Kodak No. 3A Folding Brownie Model A

film chambers image by Mario Groleau (Image rights)

variant with Rapid Rectilinear lens and Brownie Ball Bearing Shutter image by Steve Harwood (Image rights)

with F.P.K. Automatic shutter image by Mario Groleau (Image rights)

Specifications

• Type: viewfinder folding camera
• Manufacturer: Kodak
• Year of launch: 1909
• Film | frame size: type 124 (or type 122) film rolls | 3 1/4 × 5 1/2 inch “postcard”
• Lens: meniscus lens, or Rapid Rectilinear Bausch & Lomb f/4 lens
• Shutter: F.P.K. Automatic (earlier model), or Brownie Ball Bearing Shutter with modes B and T plus speeds 1/25 sec., 1/50 sec. and 1/100 sec.
• Aperture: aperture scale with hints for appropriate application of the f-stop values
• Focusing: bellows length adjustment with a pointer over a 6ft to 100ft scale
• View finder: Reflecting type finder ("Watson finder"), flips for vertical shots
• Dimensions: 250×120×60mm (folded)

Links

• Kodak No. 3A Folding Brownie user manual at Butkus.org
• Kodak No. 3A Folding Brownie Model A at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
• Kodak No. 3A Folding Brownie Model A at The Eastman Museum