TICKA WAISTCOAT POCKET CAMERA | 1904-1914 Envision someone standing on a sidewalk, appearing to check the time, while actually taking pictures! Designed to resemble a pocket watch by Magnus Niell and manufactured by Houghtons, this 17.5 mm roll film camera was produced between 1904 and 1914, and was arguably the most popular watch-type camera of all times. Only three months after its prod
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No. 3A AUTOGRAPHIC KODAK Model C | 1914-1934 Between 1912 and 1917, a young backyard inventor by the name of Henry J Gaisman was granted several patents for photographic cameras. These improvements allowed the user to &ldquowrite&rdquo a brief caption permanently on the film through a small window in the back of the camera, most importantly, at the time the picture was taken. Gaisman sta
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STEREO KODAK Model 1 | 1917-1925 This folding camera created stereographs (3D pictures) that were a rage. It had two identical lenses, separated by a distance similar to the distance between our eyes. Two photos would be taken simultaneously, mounted on a card, and viewed through a stereo viewer, which would cause the two images to fuse into one, having all the depth of the original sce
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K-20 FAIRCHILD | 1941-1945 The photograph of the cataclysmic mushroom cloud from the nuclear bomb that the US dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, was captured by a K-20 camera by tech sergeant George Caron, facing the rear of the aircraft as they swung away from the scene. A handheld manually operated aerial camera, used in military aircraft during World War II,
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VAGEESWARI VIJAY | 1945-1980 It was known as one of the best field and studio cameras the world over, and was manufactured in Alappuzha, Kerala, by K Karunakaran (KK). In 1942, a studio in Alappuzha approached KK&rsquos father Bhagavathar, a musician who also earned his living by designing and repairing musical instruments, to repair the bellows of a foreign-made field camera. Impressed
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THE BROWNIE TARGET Six-20 | 1946-1952 It is difficult to overstate the historic importance of the first small, hand-held, simple-to-use, inexpensive box camera. Brownie touted its simplicity of use by declaring that it could be &ldquooperated by any school boy or girl&rdquo. Until then, getting a picture taken had usually been a formal, posed affair, done by a professional photographer
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GRAFLEX Speed Graphic | 1948-1958 &ldquoGet a Speed Graphic&hellip.with a camera like that, the cops will assume that you belong on the scene and will let you get behind police lines,&rdquo said the celebrated press photographer Weegee who prowled the seedy underbelly of Manhattan&rsquos Lower East Side at night with a Graflex and a flashbulb during the 1930s and &rsquo40s. Truly seriou
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FED 3 Type A | 1961-1963The compact German rangefinder camera Leica had made its way to the Soviet Union by 1927 and had begun to change the habits of Soviet photographers before its import was halted. Feeling a need for the new camera, but not wanting to import it, the Russians took the only other alternative&mdashthey would make their own &lsquoSoviet Leica&rsquo. By the early 1930s, hu
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MINOX B | 1958-1972Manufactured by Minox in Germany, this 9.5 mm film camera was the first subminiature camera with a built-in light meter that did not require batteries. For many years it was the world&rsquos most famous and widely used camera for espionage photography right until the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s. The close-focusing lens and small size of the camera made it per
