Photography through the Years
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By Super Admin
Published on 20 June 2010
This season an exhibition of old camera's and accessories is on show. The exhibition covers a wide range of items from early cameras, box camera's, minitiature camera's, modern 35mm SLR, rangefinder and medium format equipment through to a couple of early digital camera's.
Accessories like films, flash guns, filters, tripods, etc. are displayed too.
The prime goal of this collection is to present and preserve an example of a broad range of cameras and to give a visitor an entertaining and rewarding trip to the world of the photography before bits and bytes.
This season an exhibition of old camera's and accessories is on show. The exhibition covers a wide range of items from early cameras, box camera's, minitiature camera's, modern 35mm SLR, rangefinder and medium format equipment through to a couple of early digital camera's.
Accessories like films, flash guns, filters, tripods, etc. are displayed too.
The prime goal of this collection is to present and preserve an example of a broad range of cameras and to give a visitor an entertaining and rewarding trip to the world of the photography before bits and bytes.
Ok, it's a very grandiose name for what amounts to a motley collection of old cameras. Most were donated by various people, some were bought at jumbles and ebay and others procured at the going rate.
The whole thing started with just a handful of vintage cameras. The collection has grown to over 100 cameras along with a lot of accessories. Most of them, are not so called "collectibles". You won't find the exotica in here, the Leicas, Contax and Rolleis are the photographic elite of this world, instead this is the home of the humble, the ordinary and the everyday camera, that brings back a "deja-vu" feeling.
The whole thing started with just a handful of vintage cameras. The collection has grown to over 100 cameras along with a lot of accessories. Most of them, are not so called "collectibles". You won't find the exotica in here, the Leicas, Contax and Rolleis are the photographic elite of this world, instead this is the home of the humble, the ordinary and the everyday camera, that brings back a "deja-vu" feeling.