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Digital Camera World
Chris George

HISTORICAL FACTS: These are the best photography april fools we ve ever seen - The Untold Story

Best April Fools for photographers ever.

For decades, the April Fools' Day tradition has given journalists around the world permission to write a little fake news every April 01. And there has been plenty of photography-related fooling over the years.

We remember one from the Eighties when Olympus (now OM System) claimed that photography had been first discovered by a Japanese monk in the 18th Century, over a hundred years before Daguerre and Fox Talbot. 

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