The Agfa Tronix

For most of this year I've been on a box camera kick. I have bought about a dozen of them of all different sorts. They are fun to play with! Box cameras (such as the Brownie) were mainly used by women to take photos of family members etc., and sometimes vacation photos. Men usually bought a camera with more knobs and dials on them. Some things haven't changed. I've been using these cameras for things they weren't really designed for and finding that with a little planning I can get them to do what I want. Here's a shot I took of a train parked in a siding near Sioux Center, Iowa. I liked the strong lines. The sky was gray, the ground was dark brown, and the train was a Norfolk Southern and is actually black & white to begin with. I like the softer focus of the box cameras. The Tronix was made of an early Bakelite type plastic in Germany around 1935. It's very nicely styled, and easy to use. It makes x8 6x9cm images on a 120 roll.


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