Fact 1: Never Smiled in Old Photos
Old photograph were taken was a huge process, because the technology was not advance like this days. so the subjects still same for an hour to get expose correctly.
Fact 2: Photos on Negatives
The negatives was developed by using a mixture of gallic acid and silver nitrate as a agent and some times add silver iodide also.
we can use Coffee, Vitamin C and Washing Soda also to develop our black and white negatives.
Fact 3: Highly Viewed Photograph
That is the default wallpaper on Windows Xp, that is called "Bliss" that was capture by Charles OβRear in 1996, and one more thing is, he didn't make money as we imagine, because the Microsoft was brought on the image in a stock website called corbis.
Fact 4: Most Popular Subject for Photography on 1800's
Popular subjects are the dead bodies, the way to keep the memories of the family members.
Cat Photography has origin in that century too, this one is the popular search on google still.
Fact 5: Most Expensive Photograph
Its sold $4.3 Million ($4,338,500) at auction in 2011, it was capture by Andreas Gursky in 1999.
One more thing is Peter Lik's boats image was sold for $7 Million but there is no proof.
Fact 6: First Photo of a Person
The first person's photo was accidentally captured, by a photographer called Louis Daguerre. Because his intention was captured the βBoulevard du Temple in Parisβ. At the time, that person was getting polished his shoe in the street.
Fact 7: Record holding Camera Collections
The Person called Dilish Parekh, a photo journalist from Mumbai, India. He was collected around 4425 no's of antique model camera. He was own this camera around 25 years. In his collection there is one 1934 model Leica 250, one of only 1,000 ever produced was most priced one.
Fact 8: Weight of Digital Camera
Weight of the old digital cameras are around 3.2kg which compared to the latest DSLR cameras (0.9 kg), in that old digital cameras only shot 0.01MP. That camera was invented by Steven Sasson in 1975, when he work for Kodak.
Fact 9: Photographs taken Everyday
There is no numbers were taken on every day, but estimates suggestion around 1 Trillion on every year. On average 95 Million on instagram and 300 Million on Facebook, were uploaded on everyday.