WHAT A VIEW - MASTER

HISTORY'S TIDBIT - "What a view, master!", the genie exclaimed. One of my fondest memories of growing up in the fifties and sixties involved playing with the View-master stereoscopic photographic viewer. While the roots of the view-master date back to the 1939 New York World's Fair, the height of the view master craze stretched from the 1950's to the mid 1960's. The popular disks from that period ranged from eye popping scenics to animated Disney characters. The view-master is still being sold today although its popularity has been largely supplanted by the high tech toys that abound in today's market. Larry Elkins Elkinsphotos Fine Art Photography

SEASON'S GREETINGS

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ELKINSPHOTOS - YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY SOURCE

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EDWEARD MUYBRIDGE - THE WORLD'S FIRST ACTION PHOTOGRAPHER

HISTORY'S TIDBIT - In 1877, photographer Edweard Muybridge was hired by California business tycoon Leland Stanford to establish whether, during a gallop, all four of a horse's hooves leave the ground at the same time. This was a question that was hotly debated at the time among racehorse enthusiasts. Muybridge managed to produce a film negative that did in fact reveal that, during a gallop, all four of the horse's hooves were off the ground at the same time, thus rendering the horse suspended in air for a split second. Larry Elkins - elkinsphotos.com

MEGAPIXEL OR BUST

HISTORY'S TIDBIT - The first one megapixel camera sensor was developed by the Kodak Corp. in 1986. LARRY ELKINS - elkinsphotos.com

THE ONE BUCK CAMERA - THE BROWNIE

HISTORY'S TIDBIT - With the turn of the 20th Century, photography entered a new era with the introduction of the mass produced Brownie camera. The price tag for the common man's camera was $1. LARRY ELKINS - elkinsphotos.com

DIGITAL CAMERA - SIXTIES STYLE

HISTORY'S TIDBIT - When was the first digital photographic camera developed? Was it in the nineties? No. Actually, believe it or not, it was the mid sixties. Hey, man. That's like groovy, man.