Camera Facts

To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!

In 1998, Sony sold 400,000 camcorders with 'NightShot' infrared technology that could see through some clothing in daylight. After a Japanese magazine exposed this unintended capability, Sony halted shipments and modified future units to prevent the feature from working in bright light.

If the human eye were a digital camera, it would have approximately 576 megapixels—though our eyes work so differently from cameras that any comparison is a rough estimate.

MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.

In 2011, it was estimated that humans took more photos every two minutes than were taken in the entire 19th century—roughly 1,000 photos survived from the 1800s compared to the billions captured daily by smartphones.