One of the largest camera collections in the world is hidden away in a village hall in a Fife coastal town - but hardly anybody knows it is there.
At least 3,000 cameras, including some dating back well over a century, belonged to the late Neville "Jim" Matthew.
He retired to the picturesque East Neuk village of St Monans after a career that took him around the world.
He took over the former Salvation Army hall to store his treasured collection. Inside the hall, row after row of cameras, accessories and memorabilia fill the shelves.
They include stereoscopic and 3D cameras as well as East European models, including many that were rare in the West.
-------------------------------- We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home. - Australian Aboriginal proverb
Bazootiehead-in-training
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I can understand his fascination with cameras. I have quite a few in my home although I never sought them out for the purpose of collecting them. I simply ended up with them over time. I have cameras that belonged to family members who are deceased and quite a few cameras that I purchased for my own use over the years. I look at some of them with nostalgia.
I took slide photographs for many years, mostly with Kodachrome, and I had a hard time coming to grips with digital photography. I now have a Canon digital SLR camera and a Kodak digital camera, but I leave a lot of the picture-taking to my wife with her cell phone.
Big Al
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