Camera in the 60's

Hello,

I am a student who is currently taking Socials Studies Summer

School. My teacher had assgned a project on Popular Entertainment

between 1955 to 1964. My job is to pick an entertainment in Canada

and I've chosen Photo Cameras. I had searched on the net on cameras

between 1955 to 1964, but most of them just gave me the

photographer's name. I would like to know if you can provide my any

information on what type of cameras were used during that time and

did many people own one? Was it a popular usage back then? Can most

people afford one? I had looked at a page on the history of camera

but it only tells me about camera obscura, which is a black room with

a hole that creates an inverted scene. And then it tells about how

inventers created chemical to fix an image and stuff. But it skipped

the periods from 1940s. Thank You for all your time and hope I am

not bothering your time.

Kokenoto

Almost any film format currently avaialbe was available between 1955 and 1964. My father used an Agfa Karat (35mm Range finder) that is still operational today.

Here are a few WEB sites that might be of help in completing your project.

http://www.graflex.org/

http://people.smu.edu/rmonagha/mf/

I don't know about price, and affordability.

I think you will need to spend some time searching web sites or better still looking for relevant books. You have chosen a big subject so why not start off by getting hold of as many camera history websites as possible. I do not know about Canada so cannot help you specifically.

But for instance if you stick 'camera history' into google one of the first sites which comes up is Kodak which gives models, dates, prices etc.

http://www.kodak.com/global/en/consumer/products/techInfo/aa13/aa13.shtml

You then need to get a wider picture of how photography related to society in general. More googling I should imagine. Try a few things and see what pops up.

Incidentally this is one of the more obscure, specialist forums. Why not try your question in the 'general(non archived)' forum.

interesting subject. good luck !