Re-boot...

Time for a re-boot!
The Kiron lens has gone in what has become a very, very slow clearout of much of the surplus camera related stuff I've accumulated over the years.  But rather than carry on from where I left off I think it's time to start afresh and have another go at working up to a Blad.
So back to a Brownie!
I've found one that must have come to me some years ago now.  It was in amongst a box a junk bits and bobs that came with a camera I bought at a local saleroom, so in effect cost me nothing.  And nothing is what it may well be worth as it appears to have no lens, although the rest of it seems to work OK.
It's a Canadian made Model A 2C Brownie from the 1920s and produced images that were about 7x12 cm on the now obsolete 130 roll film.

2C Brownie

So it's big... almost large format, which opens up several options for putting it to some use.  I have a couple of the old wooden 130 reels so I could respool some 120, or perhaps some 7cm fujichrome that's hiding in the film fridge.  Paper negatives is another idea and I also have some Harman direct positive paper I could cut to size too. Would I be tempted to try some wet plate... ? It's been done with this camera before and by all accounts is very easy as no adaptation of the box is needed.. but, ... I suppose it's a option.
As for a lens, well, pinhole is the obvious and most simple way to go, but I think I should be able to find a suitable meniscus lens to stick behind the shutter.
Let's see how it goes.

My reading material at the moment is Geoff Dyer's the 'Ongoing Moment' which is as fascinating as it is frustrating.  The question of a photograph being defined by its creator or its subject is not new but is approached in a novel way which I find compelling, however the acknowledged lack of many of the images that are referred to in the text is hugely annoying.  The text reads like it should be a soundtrack to a slide show but the screen keeps going blank!  Maybe I'll create that slideshow.... :)

Anyway, I'll photograph with the Brownie and keep the 'Ongoing Moment' and its tropes in mind.