Kodak 620 Junior
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- This video is about my 620 Kodak Junior Camera. It is a folding medium format camera that takes 620 film. This film is not manufactured any more but is basically a 120 film on a thinner spool.You can rewind 120 film onto an old 620 spool and shoot away. The camera takes 8 pictures at 6x9cm. At the end of my video are a couple of colour sample pics I took back about 1992.
The maximum aperture on this one is F7.7.
The camera has actually got two tripod sockets for portrait and landscape mode shots.
There are some links underneath that you will find helpful.Thanks for watching.
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Came here to figure out how to close this thing! Thank you lol
Glad you found it helpful. Geoff
Nice informative video. Thanks! I’ve very recently acquired the Kodak Tourist. Shot my 1st roll of 620 Tri-X 400 pan black and white film. I’ll pick negatives and prints up from the lab tomorrow. Wish me luck!
Thanks Henry. Good luck with your roll of film and your "new" camera.The good thing about film is you usually get something to show for your efforts.cheers Geoff
I've got a junior 620 I'm going to try out soon. How did your shots come out?
@@nickpadget I only got one good one out of a total of eight exposures. The camera didn’t age very well (1948). I think the lens was scratched and perhaps mold. Still, the one good one was worth the purchase of the film just to try it out. The camera was a gift. Good luck with yours.
Thanks - helpful and nicely presented (I've just picked up an F6.3 model). Really liked the photos at the end, too!
Thanks Stephen. I love these old cameras.Good luck with yours. Cheers Geoff
Hey thx this video was really helpful !! :)
thanks Grace. Glad you got something out of it.Geoff
Very interesting video, I've just gotten into old film cameras and was wondering how these kind of cameras worked, thanks! :)
Thanks fir your comment Chloe. Enjoy your old cameras. The only problem is film is getting expensive and because you might have trouble getting old cameras fixed there is a new wave of people learning how to fix them themselves. Cheers. Geoff.
@@pembridgehouse No problem :) I’m very lucky that some of the cameras I’ve found work (and a couple don’t) but they were thankfully very cheap. The film is a bit expensive to buy and process but I don’t take lots and lots of photos so I think I’m enjoying it enough for it to be worth it.
Good. Go for it Chloe. I was pleasantly surprised the other day when my local camera store had some Fuji film at a good price.
Hi there, I recently found an old camera that looks similar to this when I moved into a child hood home, my grandfather who now lives with my mother says I could keep it. It says Kodak 620, folding brownie six-20 and I'm not really a camera savvy person, but any information would be appreciated
You would need to get someone to explain the basics of photography and then learn how to apply them on this old camera.You probably have a friend who could help you. The laws of photography that are applied in these old cameras are the same as the modern cameras. cheers Geoff
Hi, I have a Kodak Anastigmat, Junior620, 1:8.8 f=10.5cm. This video was helpful because I didn't know how to open it, I was afraid of breaking it. Thanks! There is also an axis, something like a piston. In your video you didn't use one. If I want to sell it, what price can I offer it for? Thanks.
Hi Silvia. Thanks for passing by.I am not sure what you mean by an axis or piston. Maybe tell me more. If I was selling this in Australia I would be thinking an enthusiast or collector would buy it.Maybe the price would be less in other countries.I would be asking about $100.I wouldn't necessarily find a buyer in a hurry. I think I sold a similar camera for about that price.cheers Geoff
Hi. We have one of these cameras that was my grandfather’s. Do you know if they were used in WW2. It looks like it’s in an army type case.
Hi Cindy. It s a good chance that it was used in WW2 if your grandfather was in the armed forces.I have a similar camera that belonged to a friend's father that is in a Khaki canvas case. I know that one was definitely used in war time. My dad also took photos with a Kodak retina 35mm camera when he was in the RAAF..My understanding is that officially soldiers were not supposed to use their cameras but I know many of them did.A good question. Geoff
Hi! I have a question , how you rewind the film once it's exposed?
I have a Kodak Junior 620 that looks similar to this one and I don't have any idea about how to rewind the film
Thanks for your question Celia.There isn't a rewind button because once you have exposed the film yo take the exposed film in for processing. The other spool then becomes your take up spool.It is not easy finding new films for these cameras
I've never seen a medium format camera (my experience is with 120 film, but 620 is 120 film on a slightly smaller spool) with a rewind. You wind from one spool to another and the finish end has a lick and stick paper to hold it all tight before developing. Many people have found you can trim a 120 spool - with unexposed film on it - with a pair of nail clippers or good scissor and it'll work on 620 cameras. 120 is plentiful, but not cheap , but what film IS cheap anymore.
thanks for your comments.Just realised I hadn't replied.@@christianpaul3303
Hey, you mind lending a quick hand?
So, I've got a kodex no.1 junior six 20 series 3. It's exactly like what you've got there except with a flip up viewfinder.
There's a button that seems to link up to the shutter up front, but I don't think it's working. It clicks but not like a shutter should. I opened the back, actuated the switch and the shutter did not work.
In shot, I belive the shutter isn't working. What should I do about this?
Take it to a camera shop and ask their opinion.If you cant see light entering when you open the back then it probably is not working.good luck. geoff
@@pembridgehouse yeah, I figured.
I was really just holding hope that I didn't have to do that, so expensive! And not to mention a long ways away.
Ah, well thanks for your opinion, I'll be sure to do that at my wallets expense haha! Have a good one Geoff.
@@basedmax9029 you too.
Hi, I have also a Kodak 620 Junior, I opened it but now I don't know how to close it, can you help me?
Hi David. At 1:38 I show you how to do this. Geoff
@@pembridgehouse thank you so much!
@@davidebarra8264 you're welcome.