page_title: Ansco Panda
hierarchical_section_title: Ansco Panda
caption_attribution_description: The popular and aptly-named Ansco Panda is a TLR-style box camera that takes 620 film. Many sources (on the web) say the Panda is made of bakelite, but I'm 99.9% certain it's not. The word most often used to describe the Panda is "cute", and with good reason.&#160;:o) It's also described as Ansco's answer to the Kodak Baby Brownie, and I'd say it was a damn good move on Ansco's part; the Panda enjoyed a long production run (c1939-50). This example has a stamp inside that says 7-48. If it's a date stamp, that would make it 60 years old!
context_page_description: The Ansco Panda was a simple child's box camera made by the Ansco camera corporation of Binghamton, New York in the 1950s. 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. 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.
context_section_description: The Ansco Panda was a simple child's box camera made by the Ansco camera corporation of Binghamton, New York in the 1950s. 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.
caption: An Ansco panda camera.
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