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Bill’s Box Camera

Aaron found this gorgeous little beauty amongst his father’s things. There’s something incredibly magical about the simplicity of a box camera and in a world of ever more mega pixels, shooting with a camera that’s roughly eighty years old feels quite satisfying.

I still find loading 120 film tricky and I’m surprised that anything’s turned out given my spectacular fumblings. The good news is that the box camera itself is rather forgiving and I don’t need to re-spool the film onto smaller spindles. (If you do find yourself in need of doing this, I found these instructions to be helpful.) That said, it does require a small spindle for the film uptake so I have to request the spindles back after processing.

I’ve never been one to name my cameras, but this one? She seems like a Stella.