What is the aperture and/or shutter speed for my box camera?
A contemporary Kodak Ltd. publication quotes the aperture in a “simple” camera as between f/11 and f/16. For those Kodak box cameras with adjustable apertures, usually on a pull-up strip, this would be the largest opening (with the strip pushed all the way in), the smaller being between f/16 and f/22. In the event of three apertures, the smallest will be one stop lower again. The shutter speed will be around 1/30-1/60th second. The usually recommended film speed for these older cameras is 100 ASA, though this is probably twice as fast as the “normal” film that was available when they were built, so more use of the smaller apertures will be made than when the cameras were new. Let’s not be too critical here, the shutter on your camera is unlikely to be performing at the same speed as when it was built, may not operate at a consistent speed, and possibly wasn’t built to very exacting standards in the first place. Modern negative film has remarkable latitude, especially when compared with
