Eastman Kodak (still Division of film cameras)
The first simple roll cameras produced by the Eastman dry plate company, known as the "Kodak" in its product line. Early nineties of the XIX century: the first Kodak cameras were presented
2016 in science
Friend Ibrahim al-munissi, a journalist writer in Al-Akhbar and editor-in-chief of Al-Ahly magazine, drew my attention last Friday evening to the importance of installing surveillance cameras in as many places, streets and roads.
The price of cameras is no longer an issue, as there is a type that is sold for about ٣٠٠ pounds only. This very small amount can "prevent a lot of trouble". Imagine if there were cameras installed at the entrances to the cities and centers of Upper Egypt on the western desert road, it would not have been possible to find the identity of the perpetrators through car numbers instead of turning to searching for them in a "needle among a pile of hay"way.
Cameras are no longer a luxury. And there are entire cities in the world covered with cameras. Not only in Europe and America, but in Arab cities, and the best model is in Dubai, which enabled the authorities there to solve multiple major mysteries, for example, the story of the murder of Suzanne Tamim by a drunken former Egyptian security officer commissioned by Hisham Talaat Mustafa. Dubai has even seen the reputation of the Israeli Mossad in the dust, thanks to the cameras of a hotel that filmed Mossad agents going to the room of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh and killing him. Dubai cameras also filmed a gang from Eastern Europe stealing several expensive diamonds from a major shopping mall.
A few days ago, a minibus car on the Ring Road near Kerdasa kidnapped a woman and robbed her after mistaking her for a taxi. On the same day, the perpetrators were caught because a surveillance camera towing a car showroom down the road filmed the car numbers. Imagine if the camera didn't exist.. Would the perpetrators have been caught in a day or even a year!.
Cameras do not reduce the efforts of the police, but they help them greatly, and we must remember that the cameras played the biggest role in uncovering the mystery of the bombing of the Petrine Church in early December last year. One shot, she led to the culprits. The camera also revealed to us the image of the terrorist who blew up the St. Mark's Church in Alexandria last April.
Cameras have become like water and air today, and therefore the security services must consider them as justifications for licensing any shop, facility or institution, and anyone who violates is subject to the harshest penalties.