With millions of photos being captured everyday, photography has become a core part of our lives. Our society has come a long way since the first photo was captured. It’s almost impossible to live in the digital world without being equipped with a camera. With that said, here are 10 interesting facts on photography.
1. There are 12 Hasselblad cameras on the surface of the moon.
2. The first digital camera was designed in December 1975 by Kodak.
3. Back in the 1820s, early cameras would take several hours to actually capture a film. That would explain why our ancestors weren’t smiling back then.
4. Back in those days, photographing children posed a very difficult challenge. So mothers had to sit all covered disguised as a chair holding their babies.
5. Every two minutes we snap more pictures than the whole humanity did in the 1800s.
6. The man with the largest collection of cameras is Dilish Parekh from Mumbai.
7. The longest photographic negative measures just over 129 ft. in length and was created by Esteban Pastorino Diaz on June 13. 2010.
8. If you want to add a rare 1923 Leica O-series camera to your arsenal of cameras (and the bragging rights which ensues), you better have some deep pockets.
9. The word camera derives from the latin word, “camera obscura”, translated to “dark chamber”.
10. Cheerleader effect: there was a study conducted by Drew Walker and Edward Vul at the University of California stating that there’s a cognitive bias which causes people to think individuals are more attractive when they are in a group.
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