As a result portrait studios and equipment shops became the natural gathering places for shutterbugs, leading directly to the diffusion of photography in Taiwan. (Sunny Hsiao based extensively on material from Chien Yung-pin's In Search of the History of Taiwan's Photography Culture / tr.by Phil Newell)
此時，營業寫真館或寫真材料屋，遂成為攝影愛好者聚集、互換心得的重鎮，開啟了台灣業餘攝影家的濫觴。