The first museum of its kind in Malaysia, as well as in South East Asia, recently opened its doors to the public. Local photography fans can now take a journey through the evolution of the camera from the 19th century to its present day at the Camera Museum located in a two-storey pre-war shophouse in George Town.
The museum is the brainchild of seven young people -- Tony Ch'ng, 34; Najieb Ariff Nazir Ariff, 34; Christopher Cheah, 30; Venus Khor, 28; Lance Ooi, 27; Paul Lee, 27 and Adrian Soh, 26 -- who are professional photographers and lovers of the art of photography. Only a month old, it has already hosted programmes for the Obscura Festival during the recent George Town Festival 2013.
The collection of over 300 cameras include include the century-old Brownie, Kodak's first commercial camera; a 150-year-old American-made folding camera; the Rolleiflex, and the Graflex Speed Graphic, the most famous press camera; a tiny World War II Soviet Union spy camera, the 1938 Argus camera; an antique Daguerreotype camera and the French-made Le Minimus stereoscope, the 3D picture viewer of yesteryears.
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Photo: Camera Museum founders (copyright: New Straits Times)
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