A pale blue 120 box camera with an eye level view finder. An Imperial XII
After dissasembling a non functioning 620 Kodak Autographic camera at the age of seven or so, a pale blue bakelite box camera was given to me by an aunt the following Christmas – my photographic journey had begun…
http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Imperial Shows the all of the cameras made by the Herbert George Co
The photo below is one of a few negatives that have survived.
Shot in Switzerland in the 1950′s and first contact printed with a Kodak contact print and developing set received as a birthday gift. The films used were a combination of Agfa and Kodak 120 -100 ASA, developed in D76.
The negative has been scanned on an Epson 1650 photo and then corrected in Photoshop. The contrast has been increased and a fair amount scratch removal has been completed other than that it is pretty well as the box camera exposed it.
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