This was my very first new camera. I can't place the date exactly, but I received it as a gift sometime in the early 1950s. It's still functional, but 620 film is no longer available, except as respooled stuff that is pretty pricey.

It has a simple meniscus lens and one shutter speed. It does have a tab to allow "bulb" exposures and two apertures. I haven't gotten around to measuring either, but I think the shutter is about 1/50 and the apertures probably about f11 and f22.

Anyway, as I was tinkering with these pages, I grabbed a roll of 120 Ilford Delta 100 and respooled it onto a 620 spool I luckily had hiding in a corner of the darkroom. Here we see some results on a partly cloudy winter day. I vaguely recall the old standby was Kodak Verichrome or Verichrome Pan, likewise no longer made. So it worked, though the Bronica needn't fear competition.