Childhood Memories of growing up in the 1950s and 1960s.
Where to start? This has got be one of the most rapidly evolving pieces of everyday equipment in our lifetimes! So I’ll start right at the beginning and do a very quick potted history of the camera – which is now 115 years old. Then I’ll write from personal experience about one of the most amazing gadgets known to Man.
1814 – Joseph Niepce achieved the first photographic image using the camera obscura.
1837 – Louise Daguerre introduced the daguerreotype, a fixed image which didn’t fade.
1851 – Frederick Scott Archer invented the introduced the Collodion process which reduced light exposure time to 2 – 3 minutes.
1888 – George Eastman patented the Kodak roll film camera.
1900 – the first mass-produced camera, the Kodak Brownie, went on sale.
1927 – the General Electric Company invented the modern flash bulb.
1948 – Edwin Land launched the Polaroid camera.
1963 –…
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