An Age of Magic

Camera’s…they sure have changed

When you think back to the very first time a photograph was ever taken - back in 1826 by the French Chevalier brothers - the camera has to be considered one of the most significant inventions of mankind.

It has effectively recorded mans progress through the 19th and 20th century, capturing all those historic moments which made the 19th and 20 centuries the most interesting in the history of humankind. Before then we only had an artist’s impression or the written word…

But look at how the camera has evolved since that day in 1826 when the Chevalier’s took that first photo; it was on a sliding wooden box camera. Since then we have had Daguerrotypes and Lithographs; camera obscura’s and box brownies. Then later came the self-developing cameras and now we have the digital cameras with their compact flash and memory cards.

And they have all played a part in the last 200 years. Why? because we have the last 200 years on film.

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