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This particular Brownie Hawkeye came to me in working condition but the lens was extremely hazy which required me to open it up and clean it. The Brownie Hawkeye is one of the simplest cameras to open, as it only requires removal of four screws, two inside the film compartment and two on the front plate to clean everything you need to clean.
If you need to do this yourself, just get a small screwdriver and remove the back of the camera so that you can see inside of the film gate. Remove the two screws indicated by the red arrows, and the plastic film gate and film holder comes out.
This piece holds the lens in place with tension. On some cameras, the lens may still be attached to the back of the gate, but on mine, it was laying there loose. Whichever is the case for you, just pick up the lens and clean it.
Even after cleaning the lens, there is a glass window on the front of the camera which may be dirty and needs cleaning as well. On mine, this piece of glass was dirtier than the actual lens and was the cause of most of the haze.
To get to this glass window, you must lift up the curved metal plate on the front of the camera. There are two screws on the front plate and two more next to the viewfinder.
With those screws out, gently lift up on the metal plate and pull out the plastic lens baffle and the square piece of glass behind it. Reassembly of the camera is the opposite of how you took everything apart.
Although mine had a perfectly working shutter, if you notice the shutter on yours is sluggish, this is also a good opportunity to clean it. To get to the shutter, in the step above after you remove the lens to clean it, you can also pull out the metal plate behind it.
There is nothing holding this piece in place, it just lifts out and reveals the entire shutter mechanism behind it. My first roll of film through the Brownie Hawkeye was an expired roll of Kodak Gold that was of unknown age. Apparently, I was so quick to shoot this camera, I never bothered to look through the lens to see that it was coated in a thick haze.
Looking at these images, they are extremely soft, almost as if someone was shooting through a set of sheer nylons. For the second roll, I wanted to use a roll of real film instead of re-rolling fresh onto a spool, so this time tried some s Kodacolor II. Eastman Kodak had a knack for making cheap cameras that still delivered the goods in terms of image quality.
Considering these cameras were used as snapshot cameras by people with little to know knowledge of photography, getting a good sized 6cm x 6cm color or black and white print was good enough for them. The simple 81mm meniscus lens manages good sharpness corner to corner. Vignetting and edge softness are visible, but not at all distracting delivering images that look exactly as you might imagine those shot with an almost 70 year old box camera would.
Although I did not shoot any black and white film, I feel confident that any film with a speed from ASA 25 to probably would have worked fine.
The Kodak Brownie Hawkeye was an inexpensive camera that was designed to be easy to use, and that is still as true today as it was more than half a century ago when they were built.
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