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The History Of Nikon
31 March 2000
 
Just like its European peers, Leica and Zeiss, the makers of the Nikon camera can trace their history back to the manufacture of a range of optical equipment............

Concealed Cameras
11 December 2000
 
James Bond may be a character of fiction, forged in the inventive imagination of Ian Fleming, but a whirlwind tour of camera history could well convince you that characters such as 007 and M really did exist............

The Kodak Motormatic
By Bob Tomaine 01 September 2000
 
It'd be easy to dismiss the Kodak Motormatic 35 after a cursory look, but beneath that late-1950s styling with its satin finish and leatherette lie some solid points in this camera's favor............

Collectible Cameras
By John Condie 20 April 2000
 
Take a trip down to any provincial saleroom or around any local market and you are likely to come across any number of old cameras. Because cameras have been produced since the 19th century in their millions and most of us have owned at least one in our lifetimes, it is not difficult to see that starting a collection is quite easy............

The Magic of Home Movie Making
11 August 2000
 
Walk into one of the bedrooms at the home of Andrew Sinclair and you are confronted by scores of neatly displayed cine cameras, some of which date back to the early 1920s when the concept of home movies was first introduced............

The Kodak Revolution
17 January 2000
 
In 1879 George Eastman patented the dry-plate camera on which the fortunes of his giant Kodak Company were founded. From 1880 to about 1920 is regarded as the dry plate period............

Collecting Cameras
By Mel Lewis 26 April 2000
 
Many collectors don't use their cameras much, though they do like lenses that focus and shutters that trip - even if the speeds are wildly inaccurate, as is so often the case with early models! Collectors can be curiously Luddite when it comes to technical development - when shutters went electronic, collectors hankered after equipment with manually set speeds............

Panorama Cameras
14 April 2000
 
The Panoramic Camera was an ingenious invention which made a dramatic contribution to the development of photography. Up until 1857 photographs were restricted to square or slightly rectangular shapes with the maximum ratio of height to width limited to 1 to 1............