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Show fiamera FACTS & FANCIES The largest camera ever built weighs 30.4 tons, is nearly nine feet high, eight feet wide and 35 feet long. It's equipped with a 63-inch f15 lens. Built in 1959 for a British graphics firm, its value after improvements in 1971 was placed at more than $240,000. In the summer of 1862, aelow zero Fahrenheit. French physician and scientist, scien-tist, Dr. Joseph Nicephore Niecp, took the earliest known ohotoeraDh. The view of the courtyard of his country house is believed to have taken eight hours to expose and was recorded on a bitumen-coated polished pewter plate. Photography has come a long way since Niecp's time-exposure: time-exposure: now cameras take pictures in less than the blink of an eye. The new Minolta 110 Weathermatic-A, for example, not only offers simplified picture taking with its small pocket size and drop-in cartridge loading, load-ing, but it's protected by watertight seals and housing that permit it to be used in, on , or underwater and at temperatures below freezing. freez-ing. The Weathermatic-A is the world's first pocket camera that floats, and its versatility and ease of operation opera-tion make it an ideal gift both for the novice and experienced photographer. It offers the right combination combina-tion of features for all out-doorsmen out-doorsmen and captures the kind of pictures that were never possible before with a pocket camera. make a camera obscura, a simple pinhole with a translucent trans-lucent screen. While photography is considered con-sidered to hav had its start in 1839 with the introduction introduc-tion by Louis Daguerre of Paris of his photographic process, actually it was based on concepts known to the ancient Greeks. They had developed the method, though not the film, . to |