article_snippet.sent: he said he came up with the idea after struggling to get pictures of he and he together while himself and his wife were in Europe.
article_snippet.sent: After having he camera stolen by a child he asked to take their picture in the Louvre Museum in Paris, he dreamed up a solution - an extendable stick with a tripod screw at the end.
article_snippet.sent: he added a mirror to the front of the camera so that photographers could see exactly what photographers were doing.
article_snippet.sent: The philosophy behind it was that I didn't need to rely on anyone else to take a photo
article_snippet.sent: Remote timers and triggers have been available on cameras for decades.
article_snippet.sent: A recently unearthed photograph also showed that some early photographers adopted unusual methods to take some early photographers own photo - such as using a broom handle to hit the trigger on some early photographers camera.
highlights_snippet.sent: It used a mirror on the front of compact cameras to help the photographer .
  