One of the first cameras to make a permanent photographic image has left the UK for the first time to be part of an exhibition hosted by the Japan Camera Museum in Tokyo. The so-called Mousetrap camera, used by William Henry Fox Talbot in his early experiments in creating the negative process in the 1830s, is the centre-piece of an exhibition entitled Kingdom of Elegance, Mahogany and Brass which shows off early cameras from the UK’s photographic industry. Sponsored by The British Embassy, the exhibition displays cameras owned by the Royal Photographic Society, the National Media Museum of the UK and a private collector called Kobayashi Yas.
Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)