fernando_alvarez

"This will be the LAST camera," I say every time I visit ebay. But I'm just lying to myself. 😭

It all started one boring afternoon at the beginning of 2023 when I googled "half frame", because I had read that Kodak was selling a new "half frame" camera, the H35. Then I suddenly found myself learning about the history of Kodak and their Brownie cameras, and about film formats, film types, developing processes, and then I was developing my own film at home, and spending my hard earned money ordering different Brownies and Soviet-era cameras online! Before that, I only used to have a Kodak K4 in my teen years. Then a Canon Prima BF800 that suddenly stopped working. Didn't care about photography afterwards, until the advent of digital photography.

The cameras in my humble collection are:
- An Argentinean Kodak Brownie Fiesta 3 that I found in the street in Montevideo, Uruguay (Paseo Sarandí)
- A venerable 1914-1917 Kodak Brownie No. 0 (my favorite)
- Kodak Duaflex II
- Kodak Brownie Super 27
- Kodak Brownie 127
- Kodak Baby Brownie
- Kodak Brownie Six-20
- Kodak Brownie 2 Model F
- Smena 35
- Carena 35F
- Agat 18K (the Queen of Light Leaks. I'll use it whenever I feel in the mood to waste some film)
- Chaika (half frame)
- Kodak VR35 K4 (purchased out of nostalgia for my teen years)
- Hayamou BHF-01 (half frame)
- A German 110 Porst PocketPack 1000
- A pink Kalimar "Glitter Star, Point & Shoot Outdoor 110 Barbie camera" with a heart-shaped objective
- A medium-format Chilean Amiga camera (the only camera ever made in Chile, afaik)
- And a creaky, clunky, clanky unbranded blue plastic 35mm point and shoot camera that no camera maker wants to take responsibility for.