The word photography originates from Greek, meaning drawing with light.
The word camera originates from the Latin word camera obscura which means dark chamber.
The first ever camera described in the history was a pin hole camera, dating back to 4th or 5th century.
All sensors of modern cameras only capture in black and white. It then calculates red, green and blue tits according to the luminance to add color to the picture.
The word's first color picture was photograph of a tartan ribbon produced by photographing it three times through red, blue and yellow filters then recombining the images into one color omposite.
English photographer Easweard Muybridge produced the first photo on movement in 1878 which subsequently set the stage for the first motion pictures.
The first known photograph of a tornado was taken on 28 August 1884, about 22 miles southwest of Howard, South Dakota by an unknown photographer.
The film used to capture the photos on NASA's Appolo 11 moon missions was manufactured by Kodak.
There are 12 Hasselblad cameras left on the surface of the moon today.
The chemicals used in the early days to develop photograph are poisonous and could be fatal if consumed.
