Ansco Panda

Summary

The Ansco Panda was a simple child's box camera made by the Ansco camera corporation of Binghamton, New York in the 1940s.[1] Its appearance is quite similar to the Kodak Baby Brownie and was designed to compete directly with it. The camera features a black plastic body with cream accents around the lenses, a cream colored wind knob and a TLR style viewing lens above the taking lens. Images are composed via a waist level viewfinder and taken by means of a traditional Ansco red shutter trigger button depressed by the right index finger. The camera produces 12 square photographs on a single roll of 620 format film (Ansco No. 20 film). Focal length of the camera is 60 mm and it has an f/16 lens. Focus is fixed and objects from about 6' to infinity are in focus.

An Ansco panda camera.

References edit

  1. ^ Life. December 6, 1948.