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Designed after the main Art Deco periodWrap around horizontal ribbing on the Bakelite bodyLined pattern on camera faceAluminium lens bezelsAluminium hoodChrome highlights on sidesCurved Streamline Moderne designThe Brownie Reflex 20 is a twin-lens reflex style box camera from the 1950s. It can be described as a pseudo twin lens reflex camera. It isn’t a true TLR because the top lens is just part of the viewfinder and does not aid focussing. It has a moulded plastic body with a large brilliant waist level viewfinder with a hood. The viewfinder has a dotted square guide for use with slide film. A tripod mount is not provided.The aperture control is labelled with the numbers 13,14 and 15. These are not F values but EV values. It offers a choice of EV13(f/11), EV14(f/16) and EV15(f/22). The shutter speed is 1/60s. The camera has front focussing and is labelled as Scenes (12ft-INF), Groups(6ft-12ft) and close-ups(4ft-6ft). The film is loaded by moving a lever on the base so that the whole of the film transport system can be removed by lifting the top off the camera. It has an shutter interlocking system that avoids double exposure. When the film is loaded, the red window is used to locate the first frame. There is no need to use the red window again. The camera will move to the next frame and lock when the film is advanced by the wheel. The red window can’t really be used to check how many frames have been taken because the auto advance and the annotation on the film get out of step. Not sure how you are supposed to know when 12 frames have been taken. The red window has a spring loaded sliding cover.
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Location: Cardiff