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Appaphot is intended to make you share my passion. This passion for photography and camera began in the early 70s with a few cameras "box" for decorate my darkroom. And then, many donations and gifts of my family and my friends with some simple cameras, sometimes more rarer have filled my glass cases. Then I haved catch the virus and that go on allways..

So, why to hide these objects that trace the entire evolution of the cameras and its accessories from the origins to today ?

You can enjoy the photographs and the informations available on cameras and other accessories of my entire collection.

These devices got used to being looked
So, continue to look at them and ...... smile!

 I'm not a professional photographer, but I've been immersed in photography for most of my life, from my first camera (an Agfa Clack 6 X 9 cm) when I was 11.
I wanted to be a surveyor like my dad, but I was born amblyopic (I can only see out of one eye), so I didn't go for surveyor. I could have chosen photography (one eye is enough) but I became a paramedical.
I was almost 23 and in the hospital where I worked, the surgeons knew about my passion for photography and I took photos in the operating theatre for these doctors who were editing articles for scientific journals that needed to be illustrated. Some days I spent a little longer in front of a reproduction table (Polaroid) of X-rays of synthetic material (prostheses) for the statistics of Swiss designers. I was also given a pack of around thirty Kodachrome films, and I was called in every time the emergency department received a serious accident victim, to finally produce some thirty hard-hitting slides for the work-accident prevention instructors. The professional photographer who was to have done this work lost consciousness the first time she took a shot...
In my private life, I've done a few reports on weddings, end-of-year school shows and dance performances. These were services rendered and I didn't earn a living from these occasional services other than a bottle of wine or some chocolate or, at best, an old camera for my collection.