Jan 27, 2017
409. Another shot taken near the quirky and colorful Salton Sea, a once-popular but now largely-abandoned resort area in the desert about an hour east of Palm Springs. This one is from the first (and likely last) roll I’ve ever run through my vintage Brownie Starmite II.
Manufactured by Kodak between 1962-1967, the Starmite is a basic snapshot camera that requires now nearly-obsolete 127 film. When I acquired it at a yard sale a few summers ago, I honestly didn’t expect much from it in the way of performance. Its appeal, for me, lay mostly in the fact that it’s cute in a Gidget-meets-Betty-Draper kind of way. But I like to run at least one roll of film through each of my vintage cameras so here you go. :-)