Camera Museum Georgetown Penang

My journey to explore the Pearl of Orient continues. Needless to say, I am referring to my second home, Penang, not Asia's World City. Hehe.

I had my third visit to the Chinese Medical Practitioner (highly recommended) in Bukit Mertajam last Sunday. It's a huge relief that my thumb is actually making very good progress within the past three months without the need of depo-steroid injection.

The only drawback is, it weaken my wrist the following few days after each visit. Extra care has to be taken to avoid hurting my injured tendons again. Well, you better don't disappoint me 'cause I'm really counting myself on going to ESCAPE soon!!!

Back to today's topic. We toured the Camera Museum downtown on the same day's afternoon. We were a bit reluctant to go in at first as the entrance fees are not cheap and they were four of us altogether. But guess what? Money well spent on an eye-opening experience.

It claims to be the 1st in Southeast Asia.

RM20 p.p. for the entrance with guided tour.

Ladies and gentlemen, be prepared to hop into the time machine with me to trace the history of camera. Evolving from camera obscura  through generations of photographic technology including daguerreotypes, calotypes, dry plates, film, and digital cameras.

Yashica TLRs (Twin-Lens Reflex).

Lego digital camera. So vibrant the colors.

Polaroid Land Cameras, America (1954-1962).

WWII Japanese Type 89 “Rokuoh-Sha” 35mm Aerial / Machine Gun Camera made by Konishoruko Manufacturer Company, later to become Konica.

Hands-on on the real machines. Poser! xD

No idea what this is. Captain Jack's Rollei?

Canon Pellix (1965). It was Canon's first 35mm Focal-Plane Shutter SLR Camera with TTL metering.

Polaroid Land Camera Model 95.

The "showroom" which amazed us.

Victorian Maison Martinet 3D Stereoscope, France (1895-1905).

Another 3D stereoscope I assume.

Camera Lucida (1806).
An optical device used as a drawing aid by artists before the invention of cameras.

History of camera with illustrated timeline.

1861 - Oliver Wendell Holmes invents stereoscope viewer.

There are also Pinhole Room, Obscura Room, Dark Room and an exciting new one yet to be opened.

Chubbilicious me. Teehee, let's roll the camera!!!

"What is a photograph? A picture painted by the sun and the camera is the brush."

LOL. Stiff like a mannequin.

Just do what we do best =p

Camera booth where you get to pose and snapped like a celebrity. You gotta pay for it, of course.

Now, aren't you curious where this place is? 49, Lebuh Muntri, 10200 Georgetown, Penang.
Have fun exploring and happy weekend y'all! =)