Facts about Kodak Camera

1. The word “camera” originally meant a judicial or legislative chamber.

2. Its modern use came from “camera obscura” a darkened room or box used as a pinhole camera.

3. The first digital camera was invented at Kodak in 1975, an invention that ultimately proved devastating to its roll film business.

4. Research in Japan has shown that accurate fingerprints can be detected by a camera 9ft away.

5. Apparently there are 12 Hasselblad cameras on the moon, left behind by the Apollo 11 astronauts in 1969 in order to bring back more moon rocks.

6. The first use of the word “photograph” was in 1839. It was abbreviated to “photo” in 1860

7. According to a recent report there are between four and six million surveillance cameras in the UK of which about half a million are in London.

Other fun factors such as :

1. The name Kodak was made up by its founder, American inventor George Eastman because it was impossible to mispronounce, and K was Eastman’s favorite letter.

2. George Eastman donated most of his fortune to an array of universities and charitable institutions, including MIT and the University of Rochester under the pseudonym “Mr. Smith.”

3. In the mid-1930s, Kodak researchers designed and built the world's first electronic color separation scanner to prepare images for printing.

4. In the mid-sixties, NASA launched a series of spacecrafts to photograph the moon's surface in preparation for the Apollo landing. Each carried an ingenious photographic system, designed and built by Kodak.

5. During World War II, Kodak devised films to detect radiation exposure for workers developing the atomic bomb. Kodak adapted this film and imaging technology to meet special needs in the health industry.