If you feel like continuing 127 photography, definitely pick up a Kodak Brownie Reflex! They are cute and fun little cameras!

What a luminous, gorgeous model. Incredibly photogenic.

Love using cameras. I need to get my hands on some 127 myself. I had no idea anyone was making that size. Thank you for sharing this with us.

Thanks for the tip about the film being wound tight.

My recommendation for a similar starters film camera is the Agfa Clack. Again, very simple - one speed but 2 apertures - but has advantage of using 120. Takes a pretty good photo for around £5.

Thoroughly enjoyed watching your video. I’m sat looking at my 127 Brownie which I’ve never used. I bought it for £3 a couple of years ago more as whim purchase. I’ve got 127 format film so maybe this weekend is the time to kick start it back into life.

Another triumph, a fantastically atmospheric video and the pics are superb - the B&W ones look period of course but the colour 35mm ones just have a vintage look thats so moody - there is a genuine lomography look to them while maintaining pretty good geometric accuracy.

I'm loving this series of videos. The Brownie 127 was the first camera I ever used. My parents had one and I remember using it at Chester Zoo back in the late 50s/early 60s. I don't know where that camera ended up, but I have a replacement in my collection. I'm definitely going to take it out for a spin after watching this.

In 1967 Junior High School Photography class, the Kodak 127 film Brownie was the first camera that we used and developed.

Excellent work. I think this is the most significant camera release of all time.

You've absolutely proven that it's not the camera. Loved the video. Thanks

My aunt had one of that era she took along on a road trip in the early seventies when I was a kid.. I shot some animals grazing along the highway, but when the film was developed I remember being disappointed they were just little specks. It is amazing what a got out of that Brownie.

Thanks,very ineresting,still have my Brownie 127 and its original case,bought new by me from my pocket money many years ago for a school trip to London,great little camera ,and I still have many photos taken with it ,including the London trip.Very nostalgic,lovely video,thanks.BTW I have all my dads old box Brownies and a folding 2A Brownie

I've always been curious about these little cameras, so I really enjoyed seeing how the images came out. I also didn't know that 127 is back! It's definitely tempting to get some to try out

Great job with this, especially figuring out how to run 35mm through it. I usually load it in the dark bag to avoid having to fiddle with the backing paper. you did everything right, I think the only thing letting the camera down is the lens. I havent shot an outside video like this in a long time

Sometimes I enjoy taking out a simple camera.Since there aren't any adjustments I just aim and shoot and see what happens.No worries about getting it wrong.

Had 2 127 cameras when I was a kid. First camera was similar to the Brownie you used. Second had a flash. Second one was better. Got it for my birthday when I was 11 or 12. Now I wish I would have kept it if only for nestalgia. I find even for the old Nikon N50 or my recently acquired Nikon N90 with my 50mm lens best f1.8 lens best for film. Also have an old Minolta 35mm manual that I got at a yard sale with flash for $10. The Minolta is extremely reliable and built like a tank.It has a 55mm f1.8 lens. Has a TTL meter but I use an old hand held meter when not using the f16 speed of film in bright light rule. Shooting B&W exposure isn't that critical. A plastic lens camera and a so so film plane doesn't do your photos or model justice. The picture just aren't sharp.

Hey, i use this fck127 to cut my 120 rolls down to 127 size! I must say that I just started with it and its a bit tricky. The main issue is the film's light contamination during the process. I feel like you really have to figure out how to prepare the roll and minimize the amount of backing paper bc the 127 spools are naturally thinner than the 120 spools. So far I havent reached a good result but as i said i think its really all about the excercise with that cutting tool. Its definetely cheaper than buying real 127 films though haha

I have one of these, but in the 120 film version. picked it up for a few dollars at a secondhand shop where I am in Australia. have put a couple rolls through it, and for what it is, they came our really well. must take it out for another play sometime. seeing as you can get 127 film now, I might get one of these if I find one cheap somewhere and have a go at seeing what I get with it. great video,loved the shipwrecks. 👍

I must be one of countless kids who received a Kodak Brownie 127 as a Birthday or Christmas present in the 1950's

God, this was the simplest camera ever! press, wind on, repeat.. Last used it at school around mid 60s. If I found one today, I'd probably buy it.. 😃

Nailed it again

I’ve really enjoyed all these videos on your old camera collection. I’ve been binge watching them today. I have one of these Brownie 127s, Yashica TLR, and a few other ‘interesting’ cameras like yours. I’d love to try the 35mm in the Brownie. How many frames can you take like this? Just the 8 because of the paper backing? Keep up the great work. Your videos are really excellent. Paul

For the 127 you can try out the Comet Bencini camera, a camera from Italy.

It's a good idea to put black tape over the red window in sunny weather to stop light getting in.

where is that place with all the wrecks? Its amazing.

Very good, really very good and instructional video. I started on 127 film, more than 50 years ago, with a brazilian-made Brownie Starlet called the "Rio 400" ( I still have it ). Same rotary 1/50 shutter, but two apertures (f's 11 and 16). I use to roll 35mm film on 127 spools with the backing paper. I keep on shooting with 127 film when I have a chance to grab some (very rare downhere in Rio de Janeiro), with a Brownie 127 second model just like yours and with a very capable Yashica 44. Congrats on your very well done pieces. You have one subscriber more.

This was one of my first camera purchases when I was about 9 or 10 y.o. I loved this little camera. I wish I still had it. I'm in China now, so it is not easy to buy again.

Any camera that's under a pound, still works, and for which you can get or adapt film is worth it. End of story. I have a different 3D printed 127 roll converter in front of me (it just cuts the film, doesn't do half of the respooling like the FCK127); I haven't actually used it yet, but I've converted 120 film manually a number of times (along with 828); I've had very good results. I've used sophisticated tools, too -- a snap-blade utility (useful because of the length of the blade as purchased) rolled on the 120 roll, or a common type utility knife with the film spinning on a lathe. I made the cut in daylight, then respooled the film in a changing bag or darkroom. The full frames will overlap a couple millimeters because the 6x6 framing track on 120 film has slightly shorter spacing than the full frame track on 127 -- but it does work (and if you have a camera that's good enough to want to use regularly, you can install a mask inside to shorten the frame a little to eliminate the overlap).

I use a Yashica 44 sometime with 35mm. There is a mod so you can put the film canister in.

This was interesting to see how you got on with this old Kodak Brownie. Shame about that film opening so quickly ! I thought you captured some rather nice images on the 35mm film . It was interesting to see how you used the backing paper of the 127 to enable you to use 35mm. Thanks for sharing Take care :D Teddy

Hi, a nice review. Yoy can use a 35mm film also with a 135-127 filmrol adapter. And after exposted the filmrol, in the darkroom roling back.

Try a Kodak Brownie Cresta either 1 2 or version 3 it uses 120 film. and is similar to the 127 but has 3 lens settings. and a flash socket (screw type) on the side

I had one of those when I was a kid, probably about 1968. I’ve still got it somewhere, must dig it out...🤔

Con estas cámaras Brownie 127 me tomaron las primeras fotografías en el año 68 o 69 algo así, era un bebé en ese tiempo 😂😂😂😂

So I took the plunge and bought one of the Camera Hack (FCK 127) 120 to 127 cutters. Four ruined rolls of 120 later and the fifth seems to have correctly cut and respooled to 127. I am, personally, not convinced by the design AT ALL ☹️ Will let you know how my home made 127 comes out 🤞

😅 you said that you were in the car park "in the rain." Well, duh. You're in Great Britain. No offense, I'm sparky by nature. I really like these videos and the photos are interesting. Thanks for sharing!

The problem with the 127 (and 620) film was the thin inner core of the spool, because it let often the film curve too much when it was exposed an effect of the film have been to tightly spon on the thin spool and when demand for sharper pictures grow these film types died out. If the inner core of the 127 film spool had been thicker, then it could have survived and even outnumbered 135 film ! Not much larger than the the 135 cartridge, but at smaller the 120 film, if there were made a cartridge with thick inner spool for the 127 film I can imagine that it would have been a huge succes wit negative sizes from 3x4cm to 4x4cm and 4x5, 4x6 and even wider formats ! I dreamed of a new type of film like the 127 film in a cartrige for many years, I imagined for a lot of different types of cameras it could have been made to, expecially high end SLR cameras, Think of a compact 6x4cm SLR about the size of a 135 SLR ! :)

Much like giving Jacques Pepin a potato and he coming up with a 7 course dinner,whereas we given the same potato come up with boiled potato at best.

Nice video. Is the lens plastic too?

Where is this location looks like a photographers dream setting?

What light meter are you using?

I have the original tins with film 🎞️ unused . Anyone else come across them? I have 3 tins including the camera