The club will mark the anniversary with a series of displays and presentations showing the changing face of photography since the club had its first meeting in the Radiant Hall on April 17, 1962.
Patron Buster Sinclair said photography had been revolutionised since he joined the club in 1985.
"It's just staggering how it's changed since then. Digital cameras have changed photography tremendously," he said this week.
"Digital made a big difference. You know what you've got as soon as you take the picture now and you can also do your own printing.
"All my photographs used to be slides. Now, you just put it on a disc and show it on the TV set."
The introduction of digital cameras had been the one of the biggest advances in photography, club member Ferg Campbell said.
"Digital cameras have revolutionised photography, because now anybody can do it.
"You can learn on the wing now.
"Processing was also a lot slower back in the old film camera days."
Camera collector Chris Hewitt has been gathering them since 1980 and said digital cameras had made photography more accessible.
"Interest in photography and photographic clubs has increased since digital cameras," he said.
The Dunedin Camera Club meets at 7.30pm in the Mornington Presbyterian Community Centre on the first and third Monday of every month.
A history of photography and presentation by members will be held in the clubrooms at 7.30pm on July 30.
