That is the camera with which I started in 1951 -- my Mum's Kodak Brownie 'Hawkeye' taking 120 film. She got it by saving up 'Black Cat Cigarette Coupons' -- as she didn't SMOKE it took a LONG TIME to get - I had taken it to bits when i was about 5 -- when I was 15 in 1951 I mended it with sticky tape and used ex-RAF WWII surplus film and processed it in the bathroom with 'Red Paper' over the bulb as I was told the film was not sensitive to 'RED'. The Grey Images I got on that first film I thought were the 'Bees-Knees' !!
My Hawkeye uses 620 film, if yours uses 120 film you have a very desirable camera (even with the sticky tape).
I machined an adapter to turn down the flanges on 120 film rolls so thy'll fit easily in my 620 Hawkeye.
I bought some actual 620 spools for the take-up side (the film winds smaller on 620 spools).
I'm doing some "authentic Hawkeye" portraiture now...
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