- We take pictures on our phones everyday but what do we actually know about the art of photography?
You don’t have to know these fun facts about photography to take your own pictures and enjoy them. But still, who doesn’t like fun facts?
- The first ever camera was described as a pin hole camera and it dates back to the 4th or 5th century.
- Photography was black and white until the 1930s when color photography was first introduced.
- The first digital camera released by Apple was in 1994. It was the Apple Quicktape and it was designed by Kodak.
- The first digital camera only had 0.01 megapixel. It weighed 8 pounds or 3.6 kilograms and took 23 seconds to record a picture on a cassette tape.
- A French photographer by the name of Gaspar Felix Tournachon took the first aerial photograph in 1858. He was also a balloonist, go figure.
- Our left side is our “good side,” according to Kelsey Blackburn and James Schirillo of Wake Forest University, North Carolina.
- Gustave Le Gray first came up with the idea of HDR photography in the 1850s.
- The function to “merge to HDR” was incorporated first into Adobe Photoshop in CS2.
- The largest photography competition had 353,768 entries and was achieved byVereniging Wikimedia Nederland at the Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 competition. It lasted from September 1st, 2012 to October 15th 2012. Did you know these fun facts about photography?
- Kodak was founded in the 1890s before becoming the largest photographic equipment manufacturer in the world.
- Steve Sasson was the first to invent the digital camera in 1975 at Eastman Kodak.
- A darkroom is not pitch black but instead is often lit by a red or amber colored light. This is because the black and white papers are sensitive to blue or blue and green light.
- Hungarian war photographer Robert Capa has covered five wars around the world.
- The optics for the Chandra X-ray space telescope were designed by Kodak in 1999.
- The word “photography” originates from the Greek word meaning drawing with light.
- The photo booth was invented by Anatol Josepho, a Russian in NYC in 1925. This was the start and ended up leading to the creation of the Photomaton Company.
- Joseph Nicéphore Niépce is credited with taking the world’s first photo in 1826 with a camera obscura.
- It consisted of a camera and portable wet darkroom in a single compartment
- Leica introduced the first 35mm format in still photography in 1925. Did you know this as one of the fun facts about photography?
- Eadweard Muybridge, an English photographer, made the first photo on movement in 1878 which lead to setting the stage for the first motion pictures.
- The longest negative ever made was by Esteban Pastorino Diaz with the help of Didi Dache in Beijing. The date was August 3rd, 2015 and it was 260 feet and 3 inches.
- Camera comes from the Latin word “camera obscura” meaning dark chamber.
- Photographers are serious about their craft. Ansel Adams would hike for a whole day in Yosemite National Park just to get one photo.
- The Knoll Brothers created Photoshop in 1987 as ImagePro. Adobe bought it and then turned it into what we now know as Photoshop. Did you know these fun facts about photography?
There are more fun facts about photography, so watch for another article. Let me know what you thought about these photo fun facts!