1: The first digital camera was created in December 1975, by Steve
Sasson, who was an Engineer at Eastman Kodak. The camera weighed 8 pound
and recorded 0.01 megapixel black and white photos. It took 23 seconds
to create the first photograph.
2: In 1827, Joseph Nicephore Niepce made the first photographic image with a camera obscura. Prior to that, people used camera obscura for viewing or drawing purposes only.
3: The known aerial photograph was taken by French photographer Gaspar Felix Tournachon in 1858. He was also a balloonist and took the photograph from hot air balloon.
4: The most expensive camera on the planet was a 1923 Leica O-Series camera after it was sold for approximately $2.79 million at a WestLicht auction.
5: The Lumière Brothers introduce the first viable color process in photography. They developed the Autochrome plate in 1907.
6: In 1861, a Scottish physicist, James Clerk Maxwell, created the first color photograph. He photographed a tartan ribbon three times: using a red, blue and yellow filter, and later on combined the three images into the final composite.
7: On Sept. 4 1888, George Eastman brought photography to the masses when he received patent for his roll film. He committed suicide in 1932 (at the age of 77). His suicide letter read “My work is done. Why wait?”
8: The most famous use of the Hasselblad camera perhaps was during the Apollo program missions when man first landed on the Moon. Almost all of the still photographs taken during these missions used modified Hasselblad cameras. The team had to leave around 12 cameras on the moon so that they could carry back the extra weight of lunar rock samples.
9: The chemicals which used to be used for developing photographs are called photographic fixatives. These used to be very dangerous and poisonous chemicals which, if consumed, could also lead to death.
10: The Legacy Project photograph of the control tower and runways
at the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, Orange County, California
is the largest photograph made as a single exposure on a seamless piece
of sensitized fabric using a building as a huge camera.
11: As on August 2013, Facebook users on an average upload 350 million photos daily and there are total 240 billion photos uploaded on Facebook.
12: A photo of a Sudanese child being stalked by a vulture is one of the saddest pictures in the world. This picture was taken by Photographer Kevin Carter who won a Pulitzer Prize for it. But three months after taking this shot, he committed suicide.
13: The Gunnies World Record for the largest photography competition entrant is achieved by Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland from Netherlands. He submitted 168,208 entries at the Wiki Loves Monuments 2011 competition, from 1 July 2011 to 31 September 2011.
14: Manhattanhenge also referred as the Manhattan Solstice, is treated as a photographer’s delight. Occurring twice a year, during this circumstance, the setting sun aligns with the east–west streets of the main street grid in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. An amazing photographic opportunity is created during this when the tall buildings create a vertical channel to frame the setting Sun.
15: The largest collection of cameras in the world is held by Dilish Parekh of #Mumbai. He has a collection of 4,425 antique cameras
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Tumbhi Team
2: In 1827, Joseph Nicephore Niepce made the first photographic image with a camera obscura. Prior to that, people used camera obscura for viewing or drawing purposes only.
3: The known aerial photograph was taken by French photographer Gaspar Felix Tournachon in 1858. He was also a balloonist and took the photograph from hot air balloon.
4: The most expensive camera on the planet was a 1923 Leica O-Series camera after it was sold for approximately $2.79 million at a WestLicht auction.
5: The Lumière Brothers introduce the first viable color process in photography. They developed the Autochrome plate in 1907.
6: In 1861, a Scottish physicist, James Clerk Maxwell, created the first color photograph. He photographed a tartan ribbon three times: using a red, blue and yellow filter, and later on combined the three images into the final composite.
7: On Sept. 4 1888, George Eastman brought photography to the masses when he received patent for his roll film. He committed suicide in 1932 (at the age of 77). His suicide letter read “My work is done. Why wait?”
8: The most famous use of the Hasselblad camera perhaps was during the Apollo program missions when man first landed on the Moon. Almost all of the still photographs taken during these missions used modified Hasselblad cameras. The team had to leave around 12 cameras on the moon so that they could carry back the extra weight of lunar rock samples.
9: The chemicals which used to be used for developing photographs are called photographic fixatives. These used to be very dangerous and poisonous chemicals which, if consumed, could also lead to death.
11: As on August 2013, Facebook users on an average upload 350 million photos daily and there are total 240 billion photos uploaded on Facebook.
12: A photo of a Sudanese child being stalked by a vulture is one of the saddest pictures in the world. This picture was taken by Photographer Kevin Carter who won a Pulitzer Prize for it. But three months after taking this shot, he committed suicide.
13: The Gunnies World Record for the largest photography competition entrant is achieved by Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland from Netherlands. He submitted 168,208 entries at the Wiki Loves Monuments 2011 competition, from 1 July 2011 to 31 September 2011.
14: Manhattanhenge also referred as the Manhattan Solstice, is treated as a photographer’s delight. Occurring twice a year, during this circumstance, the setting sun aligns with the east–west streets of the main street grid in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. An amazing photographic opportunity is created during this when the tall buildings create a vertical channel to frame the setting Sun.
15: The largest collection of cameras in the world is held by Dilish Parekh of #Mumbai. He has a collection of 4,425 antique cameras
Content courtesy of
Tumbhi Team
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