It seems that Kodak have decided to revive the Box Brownie for the 2012 London Olympics. It's not a new move, they have been known to make commemorative Brownies for other events and anniversaries.

Taking form the design of the 1962 Flash 3 model, the 2012 features no controls apart from the shutter, an out sized flash (folds out from the body of the camera) and a range of colours.

"Like the original Brownie, the user must look down from above into the viewfinders; and like the original Brownie, a different viewfinder is used depending on the orientation of the camera and the picture being taken, one viewfinder is used with a portrait image and the other for a landscape image. For low-light photography, a flash is included in the camera. Unlike older box-Brownie models, the flash is included in the design and pivots outwards from its storage position inside the side of the camera."

From what I've read it's digital, but with no means of looking back at what you've taken 'till you get to a computer. Ah... the best of digital and analogue combined!

In my humble opinion, the colours; good, the face on the front; bad. It might be just me, but it seems cheesy and too obvious. Apart from that, I'll be doing all I can to get one.

via Yanko Design and Trend Hunter

If you ever develop your own black and white negatives, you may have noticed that a roll may come out purple on the odd occasion. This is more prevalent in a community dark room, where the fixer is reused, but still, it happened to me last night. I was developing a roll of 135 and 120 in 2 tanks, and poured the fixer from the 135 to the 120 and regret to say that I didn't leave it in long enough! My negs are purple!

If you ever come across this problem yourself, it's because it isn't properly fixed. Put it back in the fixer for another 2 minutes and have another look. It won't be as good as if you had left it in for long enough to start with, but still...

If you fix it properly a sliver-based (black and white) negative can last more than 100 years, so you'll have plenty of chance for reprints.

Sorry if you've been trying to access the blog in teh past coupkle of weeks, Blogger have been taking down their FTP support, so I move the blog to Thingamablog instead. I've been templating for days to get it to work and it's still not finnished!

To make it up to you, here, check out JPG magazine.