Have you ever given any thought to how much photography has changed from the past to now? Well you’ve come to the right post. I have a few fun facts, some that may surprise you.
Nowadays, you’re able to pull out your phone and take a picture in a matter of what? 5 seconds? If that. Even if you have a slow phone, you still have a quicker photography experience than what they had when they captured the first known photo.
This brings us to, fun fact #1!
Did you know, that the first photo ever taken was by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in either 1826 or 1827 and the exposure lasted 8 hours? From what we can do now in a fraction of a second, depending on the shutter speed, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce had to wait eight hours. Despite the long wait, his photo was still grainy. But hey, he still captured the first known photo. I’d say that’s an accomplishment.
Fun fact #2!
Do you think that it’s cool to take aerial photography? It’s so easy nowadays because all you need to get is a drone which can be relatively cheap, depending on the quality desired.
But back in the day, an aerial photograph was a lot harder to take. Gaspar Felix Tournachon, who was also known as “Nadar”, was a french photographer and balloonist. He had to go all the way up in a balloon to take the first ever aerial shot of Paris, let alone the first aerial shot in the world. It took him three years of experimenting to get this historic shot.
But now, you can take a photo with both feet on the ground and a controller in hand while the drone does all the work in a matter of minutes and get an amazing shot. Ah, so much easier.
Fun Fact #3!
Cameras nowadays can be incredibly small. Just think about the cameras in our phones. They take up relatively no space at all. Phones can have cameras that are just as good of quality as a digital camera but are a heck of a lot smaller.
Well, the astronauts who went to the moon for the first time in 1969, left their cameras on the moon. Litterbugs… 12 Hasselblad cameras were left behind because because they’d be too heavy to bring home. Instead, our astronauts decided to bring home rocks . Personally, I’d rather have the cameras. Legend has it, they’re still on the moon today.
Technology changes so fast, so who knows, maybe in 20 years there will be a blog post containing fun facts about our cameras today. But for now, happy photographing. Enjoy not needing to wait hours or days for a picture to come out!
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