The word camera immediately
strikes the mind about photos. I remember my brother, who was much elder to me possessed
a camera. It was a box-type camera, the name…never thought at that time I
should know the name. All I was interested in was the camera and take shots
though I was a novice, a child who simply loved it and wanted to play with it
in reality. The pictures came in black and white…Black & White Era I’m
talking about.
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| Vintage Camera |
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| Sony Digital Camera |
During my childhood, we had
so many photo albums at home filled with photos. The black and white images are
my memories of my childhood days. There used to be film rolls that were used to
take pictures and photo studios did the rest of the job after the roll was
complete with snap-shots and given to them for the development process. There
used to be a dark room in the photo studios and they made the positives from
the negatives. The pictures were washed in some solution and then left to dry.
Even there used to be artists in those studios who did touch-up works for some
pictures.
By the time I bought my
first own camera, it was a Kodak camera, small in size and I chose the yellow
colour …maybe the brightness of the colour lured me. By that time coloured
reels were used and colourful photos could be got. But the Black & White
option open.
With my love for
photography from a very young age, I could shoot photos and the end result was
mostly good. Even then the finished reels had to go for development to the
photo studios.
And now, Digital cameras
have taken over. Carry them wherever you go and my small Sony camera is always
with me when I go out.
Photographs are mostly
memories which have been captured through the lens and can be perused from time
to time…the after effect of that which was caught not only in the mind’s eye
and memory but remains as a fact in the form of a photograph.
Cameras have become very
common and people spend a lot to buy a good one. Taking pictures has become a
hobby for some. The mobile phone hand-sets also have cameras and it has become
so easy to take a photograph in the flicker of a second.
Who knows what changes will
come with cameras, but photos will always be there to keep reminding as and
when we peruse through the photo album.