(Graham Burnett) - The earliest earliest that I work on are mid-1890's, Some really old shutters that I've had around.

But most of it that I work with are the first iteration of a single lens reflex camera is my huge specialty is.

Designed in 1902, they take large format, big negatives.

They've got a big mirror that flips up inside and they were the, they seem antiques to us, but they were the culmination of 150 years And they were really the pinnacle of late 1800's, of photograph manufacturing and engineering history.

early 1900's industrialization.

And because of that, they are technological marvels still today.

I'm Graham Burnett and I own GraflexParts.com.

I'm pretty much a photograph machinist, but only on antiques, not, not new cameras at all.

Most of my clients are either under 40 or over 65.

They're either professional working artists or they're retired enthusiasts.

I'm not entirely self-taught, but a lot of what I do had to be self taught because the teachers don't exist anymore.

They all passed a long time ago and that's, so, when it comes to the releathering, to the jeweling, to any of the manufacturing I do, it's all lost information.

It's a completely lost art form that's been gone for about 50, 60 years now.

And so we're just keeping it alive, one camera at the time.

- The slice from WDSE WRPT.