Asia’s biggest Vintage Camera Museum in Singapore

Asia’s biggest Vintage Camera Museum Singapore. The Vintage Camera Museum is a camera museum in Kampong Glam which is a neighborhood and ethnic enclave in Singapore.

Started by steel trader Solaiyappan Ramanathan and his cousin (and artist) A.P. Shreethar, the camera museum opened on 1 June 2017. It was started to educate people about the evolution of cameras. The exhibits consist of approximately 1,000 cameras from the personal collections of Ramanathan and Shreethar, who both collectively own 7,000 cameras. The cameras are from as far back as the late 19th century all the way to the early 2000s and include a pigeon camera, a Minox spy camera, and Rokuoh-sha Type 89 ‘Machine Gun’ camera that was used by the Japanese as a training weapon during World War II.

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in the museum

The Vintage Camera’s Museum, itself is set in the form of a Rolli camera, and the entry is shaped like a lens. There are around 1000+ cameras in each museum display right from replicas of the world’s biggest camera – the mammoth camera till the latest technological gadget, a 11 gram camera. Some of the other unique cameras which can be viewed in the museum are a walking stick camera, spy cameras, pigeon cameras, first 3D camera and pistol cameras to name a few. Besides, the museum also has on display, rare collection of photographs featuring interesting facets about photography including an authentic replica of the first ever photograph taken.

The man who built the world's biggest camera

Lawrence, a storied photographer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, went about assembling the world’s largest camera when Chicago & Alton rejected his idea of creating a composite image from multiple pictures.

pigeon camera

In 1907, German apothecary Julius Neubronner invented an aerial photography technique known as pigeon photography. By affixing a lightweight time-delayed miniature camera to an aluminium breast harness, Neubronner attached his design to homing pigeons who would then be able to capture aerial photographs during their flight.