Selected articles on antique and classic cameras, vintage photographs, and the history of photography.
Selected articles on antique and classic cameras, vintage photographs, and the history of photography.
For nearly thirty years, David Silver, InPHO's current President and one of its founders, has written extensively on the history of photography, the evolution of the camera, and the collecting and preservation of antique and classic photographic artifacts. He has published over seventy major articles during that time in a variety of periodicals, as well as dozens of smaller pieces, and updated entries on photography for World Book Encyclopedia. Provided here is an eclectic selection of those writings covering a wide range of topics. To view each article, please click on its highlighted title.
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I was a bit of an antique camera collector way back "when". I would go to garage and field sales, church sales and flea markets and pick up musical (stringed) instruments, china and silver that most people didn't know the value of, clean them up and sell them on eBay. While doing that I also picked up a number of antique cameras, mostly the folding kind that you see in the photos with the article above. However, before I left Canada, I sold them all.
Among the stories, in the article, there is one about the demise of the 127 film. I used a couple of cameras over the years that used that film.
Does anyone have any stories about antique cameras?
Hell, I don't have stories on new camera's let alone antique cameras...
Too bad. I know I've already posted camera stories on NT: About my camera that was stolen, about using a Leica in Spain and Morocco, about my camera that started taking purple pictures, about antique camera collecting, and I posted an article about first cameras.
I know you use a camera - I've seen your photos.
They're old.
So laconic...