I use a modern digital SLR camera when I photograph motorsports events such as Pikes Peak, but I have long had a soft spot for old and/or strange film-photography hardware. Homemade pinhole cameras, stereo film photography using a pair of 35mm cameras on a special bracket, crappy 110-film "spy" cameras, all that stuff. After learning how to drive a Ford Model T recently, I decided that I needed the camera equivalent of the T, the camera that gave the world the ability to shoot photographs cheaply and easily: the Kodak Brownie No. 2.

Made from 1901 through 1935, putting photography in the hands of millions of ordinary people. Murilee Martin

Inspired as well by old family photos of cars shot on a Brownie, I picked up a 1926 Brownie No. 2 Model F for cheap on eBay. The Model F was the first Brownie to have an aluminum case instead of a cardboard one, but it retained the No. 2's original 1901-technology rotary shutter and three-stop aperture control. It shoots 120 film, still readily available today and easily processed. I brought my Brownie to the Arse Sweat-a-Palooza 24 Hours of Lemons race, where I was working as an official, and shot a few 8-exposure rolls of film with it. The results, as seen in the gallery above, were quite good for 116-year-old technology (granted, modern film is much more sensitive than the stuff used in the old days).

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