Photography Facts

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!

The first digital camera was invented at Kodak in 1975. They buried the project to protect their film business, bankrupting the company decades later.

Barbra Streisand sued a photographer for $50 million to remove an aerial photo of her Malibu mansion. Before the lawsuit, it had been downloaded 6 times. After: 420,000 views in a single month. She lost the case and paid $177,000 in legal fees. The phenomenon is now called the Streisand Effect.

A man from Dildo, Newfoundland flew his drone and found this iceberg floating into the nearby Conception Bay.

Singaporean photographer Chuando Tan just turned 60. He has been modeling since he was 15. He has nearly 2 million Instagram followers. Most of them found him because they refused to believe his birth year. He was born on March 3, 1966. He looks like he is in his 20s. The internet has been demanding his birth certificate since 2017.