1917-1922 / Conley Kewpie No.2 / Antique Camera

The Conley Kewpie No. 2 is an early 20th-century box camera made primarily of black stained wood with light gauge flat black-painted metal components, covered in a coated fabric likely to be pyroxylin, and was produced around 1917-1922. It uses 120 roll film to produce 6×9 cm images, offering eight exposures per roll, and features a simple, single-element meniscus lens with fixed focus. The camera has a fixed shutter speed of roughly 1/25 second and a rotating disk on the front lens for selecting among four apertures (f/14, f/16, f/22, and f/32), with a time (T) mode available for longer exposures. It has a manual winding mechanism with a side-mounted key and a ruby window on the back for film frame counting. Despite its basic design and age, it can produce surprisingly decent images with characteristic box camera softness and distortions.