Kodak box camera anniversary: Top 10 facts about Cameras

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.

8. Mumbai jeweller Dilish Parekh is thought to have the world’s largest collection of still photograph cameras with around 4,600 of them.

9. A law case has been running since 2011 over whether a monkey can own copyright of a selfie.

10. Digital cameras have outsold cameras using film since 2003.