Walthamstow Photographic Society

http://wdps.org/  ESTABLISHED: 1894    MEMBERSHIP: 45

The club looks back on a hundred years of photographic activity with pride. Reference to old programmes show that many of our activities follow the same path. Some things may alter; we buy our equipment rather than make it ourselves; we rely on commercial developers and chemicals rather than mix our own; the tools of our hobby are smaller and much more complex. Our forebears started the club in, what seems to us, the dark age. Cameras were large and simple. Films or plates took a relatively long time to capture an image. Everything took time and was expensive. All this has changed and we could be said to be in a golden age so far as tools and materials and the possession of these are concerned.