Most camera names have little to do with what they look like but the Ansco Panda looks a little like a Panda, doesn’t it ?
It’s mostly black with some white around the eyes and stuff.
The Panda was made from 1939 until 1950. Nobody was concerned with real Pandas in those days. I assume there were Pandas in your back yard
sixty years ago. I assume there aren’t any today.
The Panda looks like a 127 camera but it manages to cram a roll of 620 into its high tech body.
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I got a roll of Verichrome Pan from someone in Virginia Beach some time ago. The film came from a family owned Panda that had been languishing for decades.
Utterly and completely lost in time.
A moment, frozen in time forever. Today, nothing is the same in this scene. Everything has moved on.
