AGARTALA, Aug 19 (TIWN): Agartala photo-galleries, camera-shop-keepers and media photographers are celebrating World Photography Day-2016.

In Agartala, all century old cameras are getting cleaned in various shops. Huge numbers of youths including photographers are reviewing century old cameras, which have been preserved in very few shops.

Asking about the craze for vintage cameras, one of the shop-keepers in Agartala said, that while it may seem that the film camera's appeal has fizzled away, there are many photographers out there who still use it. Some use it out of nostalgia while others claim that film photographs simply look better.

The world has moved on from film cameras to digital cameras. To fully comprehend this, people only have to look at industry giants like Kodak and Polaroid who failed to get on the digital train.

Still, there are photographers who remain faithful to film for good reasons. There is something that film photographs have that digital cameras cannot capture.

However, in a world where millions of pictures are uploaded every minute, World Photo Day is inspiring thousands of photographers across the planet to share a single photo with a simple purpose.

The date behind World Photo Day originates from the invention of the Daguerreotype, a photographic processes developed by Joseph Nicèphore Nièpce and Louis Daguerre in 1837. On January 9, 1839, The French Academy of Sciences announced the daguerreotype process. A few months later, on August 19, 1839, the French government purchased the patent and announced the invention as a gift "Free to the World".

It should be noted that the Daguerreotype wasn't the first permanent photographic image. In 1826, Nicèphore Nièpce captured the earliest known permanent photograph known as 'View from the Window at Le Gras' using a process called Heliography.