Do you want some really interesting fact about photography? Then don't go anywhere and start reading this article. it covers some of the interesting weird facts on photography that might not know before today.
Let's know how cat learned to pose in front of camera before us and why old people frowned in photos in older days. Besides these, know about the first digital camera and get surprised by knowing how many photos are clicked daily.
1.
HOBBY OF CAMERA COLLECTION MADE HIM
TO HOLD WORLD RECORD
Have you all ever heard that a person having hobby of collecting camera?
No, right! Then hear it today. Yes, a photojournalist in Mumbai, Dilish Parekh,
is considered to be having the largest collection of various antique cameras
and the number stands to 4,600. Yes, you all read the correct number. He is
holding his name is World Guinness Record Book since 2003 for the largest
camera collection in world.
2.
PHOTO OF FIRST PERSON WAS FORTUITOUS
In the year of 1828, when Louis Daguerre accidentally clicked a human
being’s photo, whose actual motivation was to click the photo of Boulevard du
Temple in Paris can be referred as a candid photograph. A photograph gets his
name candid when a photograph is taken without the person’s knowledge or
permission. Maybe in 19th century, the ideas of photography or the
discrimination between various types of photography was not clear to us, but
obliviously photographers continued their art.
3.
FIRST DIGITAL CAMERA
Steven Sasson, employee at Eatsman Kodak, invented 3.6 kg weight first
digital camera with 0.01 megapixels resolution, bringing a big revolution in
the world of photography. His camera not only clicked digital photographs but
was also the first hand-held digital camera.
4.
HOW HEAVY WAS THE FIRST DIGITAL
CAMERA
Steven’s camera used to weigh 8 pounds (3.6 kg) and shot only 0.01MP. The
average weight of a modern DSLR is around 2 pounds, approximately, four times
heavier than the modern DSLR camera. Very heavy to carry, right? But what to
do, history had always eye-witnessed new inventions to be much heavier than
their renovated and advanced model ranging from computer to TV or it may be
mobile or cars or camera itself.
5.
HOW MANY PHOTOGRAPHS ARE CLICKED
DAILY?
O MY GOD!!!!! Really a very tough question. Truly to speak there is no
exact numerical value of this question. But we humans have been gifted with a
powerful guessing power, where researchers after tallying various information
have roughly estimated that 1 trillion photos are taken per annum. 95 million
photos on Instagram and 300 million photos on Facebook are daily uploaded. What
can be a much better source for a hacker to hack your lives if you continuously
post photos of your daily lives on social media?
6.
FIRST COLOUR PHOTOGRAPH CLICKED ON
1861
In 1861, Thomas Sutton was the first one to suggest the process to make
the world’s first colour photograph. The result of layering three separate
images of red, green, and blue filters were projected onto a photosensitive
plate with the corresponding filters.
Besides, being the first
one to invent the process of colour photograph, he invented the SLR camera. He
was the one who developed the earliest panoramic camera with wide-angle lens in
1859.
7.
FIRST EVER PROJECTED IMAGE THROUGH A
CAMERA OBSCURA
When we think of an image, we think of a photo or landscape on a screen,
isn’t it? But we forget about the tiny holes which are more than enough to
allow a projection of any given scene. Glass isn’t even needed.
The first projected image was through
a Camera Obscura. It is a literal translation from Latin, which means “Dark
Room”. The principle was first recorded by Mozi, a Chinese philosopher, between
470 to 391 BCE. This was a dark box with a tiny hole that let in light. The
light replicated the outside scene on a screen or wall opposite the hole. One
interesting fact about Camera Obscura is that the reflected image was upside
down. This is the idea behind the pinhole camera.
8.
HOW WAS THE FIRST FLASH PREPARED FOR
LIGHTING?
One of the most important fact in photography is flashing. Previously,
flashing was done by mixing chemicals like Potassium Chloride and Aluminum and
introducing these chemical mixtures to a spark. Bright flashes would have
produced when introduced into sparks but was very dangerous because if the
ratio of the chemicals was not accurate then it would lead into explosions. But
if you are having Speedlite, then your work will be comparatively quite easy.
9.
WORLD’S MOST EXPENSIVE PHOTOGRAPH
In 1999, Andreas Gursky captured the world’s most expensive photograph, Rhein II. In 2011, 12 years later it got
sold at an incredible price of $4,338,500 at an auction.
10. THE DAGUERREOTYPE
The Daguerrotype was considered to be the first photographic process
developed by Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre in 1839. Although it was a very
complicated process from beginning but, without it we couldn’t have been where
we are today. A camera
made by French manufacturers Susse Freres (Susse Brothers) in 1839 sold in 2007
for almost $800,000.
11. WHAT DO KODAK MEANS?
Each and every company name has a strong interrelatedness with their
company products. For example, CANON
means law, principle or rule. ILFORD
got its name from its country of origin. OLYMPUS
is the home of Greek Gods.
But, KODAK has no such real meaning
or no history from where the name has originated. George Eastman, the founder
of Kodak, had once told that, the name has been kept randomly. He said that
letter ‘K’ sounded strong and so he founded a name starting with ‘K’.
12. CATS KNOW TO GIVE POSE MUCH BEFORE THAN US
What have you thought, pet photography is a newer trend? You might not
know that the cat photography are much older than you think. Maybe you have to
take some lessons from the cats on different poses in front of the camera
because they have started their poses since 19th century. This type
of photography became viral when in 1870s, Harry Pointer clicked his cat’s
photo and started it all. So all cat lovers, start learning various poses from
your cat to get your photos liked by most in social media.
13. FIRST AUTO-FOCUS SLR CAMERA
SLR camera was first discovered in 1861. It is not that the auto-focus
feature has been added recently but it was first added in the Polaroid camera.
You may get surprised that they get their fame from instant cameras and films.
14. MANY FIRST HAS A BAD END, PHOTOGRAPH IS NO EXCEPTIONAL
French inventor, balloonist, photographer, caricaturist, journalist,
novelist took the first aerial photograph in 1858. He gave a new stream to
photography, i.e., AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY. But
sadly, that first aerial photograph is no longer exist with us.
15. THE OLDEST PHOTOGRAPH IS 200 YEARS OLD
It is not only the oldest surviving photo that ages 200 years but also it
took almost 8 hours to take the picture
and named it “view from the
window”. The scene took place in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, France. The photo shows
the surrounding fort and other constructions. An image is forecasted from the
window hitting a sensitized plate, which was then used to place the image on
paper. A lot of work went into this photo, and we are lucky it survived.
16. CAMERAS THAT CAPTURED THE MOON’S SURFACE ARE STILL THERE
First manned space mission was APOLLO 11. They carried 12 Hasselblad
cameras with them. But during their return journey, the astronauts thought to
leave the cameras on the moon surface as it would be quite difficult for them
to carry back in order to make space for 25 kilos of rock sample that they
brought back to earth. But they took the film along with them and left the
camera on the moon surface.
17. WITH WHICH THE FIRST PHOTOGRAPHY PAPER WAS MADE?
The first photography paper was made of asphalt. What? Do you all are
thinking it is made with those stuffs used in road making? Not obviously.
Bitumen Judea or Syrian Asphalt is a natural occurring asphalt which was used
in making photographic paper in ancient times. It is a light sensitive paper
which makes the photographic process complete. When this photographic paper is
exposed to light it develops the latent image to visible image.
18. CORPSES TO BE IN DEMAND FOR SNAPSHOTS IN 1800s
One thing I can challenge you must not be knowing that, in the time of
1800s, popular demanding subjects in photography used to be corpses. Yes!!!!
You have seen the correct word, CORPSES.
It was the way to create the record and physical appearance of a particular
family.
Really, thanks to God the tradition is outdated.
19. USE CAFFENOL AND DEVELOP YOUR NEGATIVES
Yes, you have to believe. Caffenol is an alternative method for producing
the negatives of photos. In this process, phenols, sodium carbonate and
optionally vitamin C are used in aqueous solution as a film and print
photographic developer. There are lots of other basic (as opposed to acidic) chemicals whican be used
in place of sodium carbonate; however, sodium carbonate is the most common.
Coffee and Vitamin C bind together to form a developer, whereas washing soda
adds alkalinity to the solution, allowing you to develop images.
20. MOST VIEWED PHOTOGRAPH IN HISTORY
Is there any reader who is still using Windows XP? Then, open the
computer and see the default wallpaper once. Yes, you have guessed correctly.
The default wallpaper of Windows XP is the most viewed wallpaper named,
“BLISS”, captured by Charles O’Rear in 1996. Microsoft bought the image from stock website Corbis.
21. HOW MANY SNAPS DO YOU TAKE EVERY TWO MINUTES?
Do you really want to know the answer of this question? Ok, let me then
tell the truth. At every twice a minute, we snap more pictures than the whole
of human kind did in the 1800s. I think that even if you forget rest of the facts
this will be in your memory for years, right? In the year of 1999, Kodak
reported that they had taken approximately 80 billion pictures. The estimate is that we share 730
billion images a year on Facebook alone. Thanks for all the food images and
selfies, guys. Oh my God, that’s literally a massive number.
22. LEFT SIDE OF OUR FACE LOOKS BETTER IN PHOTO
Apparently, left side of our face looks better in photos than the right
side. A study conducted by Kelsey Blackburn and James Schrillo from Wake Forest
University confirms this. Their study shows that the left side of our face
exhibits a greater intensity of emotion. Because of this, we perceive it as
being more attractive.
23. FIRST NEGATIVE WAS CREATED BY…………
Photography went through many advancement in technologies before it came
to first film negative. These included those older versions of camera like, Camera
Obscura and the Daguerreotype. William Henry Fox Talbot had created the first
negative. It was named as salted Calotype. He mixed silver iodide and a
developing agent to create the negative. The developing agent was a mixture of
gallic acid and silver nitrate. The negative made much easier to reprint the
positive images with much ease. This is part of the reason why Fox gained the Rumford medal of
the Royal Society a few years later.
24. INVENTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY WAS POPULAR FOR………
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce inventor of photography was more popular for
various inventions like propeller, boats and many else. He invented the first
internal combustion engine, called the Pyréolophore, with his brother in 1807.
25. PEOPLE REMAINED FROWN IN OLDER DAYS’ PHOTOS
Old photographs were snapped in old large format cameras where a single
photo used to take hour to be clicked properly. The subjects obviously didn’t
smiled because they have to sit still for hours. Even head brace was provided
to the subjects for support. So it can be easily understandable that smiling
for hours wasn’t possible at all. There may be another option that all the
subjects maybe deceased family members.
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