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Check out fascinating, puzzling, and bizarre facts about photography that you probably never knew.By Nishan Kohli10 Interesting Photography Facts

Today we snap as many photos every two minutes as humanity as a whole did in the 1800s.

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In a survey undertaken last year, 76 per cent of people from Britain were seen to be drunk in photos in which they were tagged. (Perhaps many of those people were celebrating winning a pub quiz on photography.)

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The largest collection of cameras in the world is held by Dilish Parekh of Mumbai, India. He has a collection of 4,425 antique cameras which he has been collecting since 1977.

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Which is your best side? Your left? A study by Kelsey Blackburn and James Schriillo from Wake Forest University found that the left side of peoples faces are perceived and rates as more aesthetically pleasing than the right. They theorise that this is due to the fact that we perhaps present a greater intensity of emotion on the left side of our faces. Perhaps this is something you should consider when you take your portrait photographs!

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Fact #George Eastman, founder of Kodak, had a particular fondness for the letter K. He reportedly said, It seems a strong, incisive sort of letter. He came up with the name Kodak for his company along with help from his mother.

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The biggest SLR lens made to date is the Carl Zeiss Apo Sonnar T*. It weighs 564lb/256kg and has a focal length of 1700mm. It is designed specifically for use with a Hasselblad 66 medium format camera, and was custom-build for an anonymous customer who had a particular interest in wildlife photography.

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During the solar eclipse, tree leaves have been seen to act as pinhole lenses, casting crescent-shaped images of the eclipsed sun on the ground.

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The most expensive camera ever sold was a rare 1923 Leica camera, which went for $2.8 million at auction in Vienna.

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The f-number of the human eye varies from about f/8.3 in brightly lit conditions, to about f/2.1 in dark conditions.

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Amusing photographs of cats with captions (see icanhascheezeburger.com) quickly became (and remained) viral on the internet. Apparently this is nothing new. One of the first photographers of cats in amusing poses was English photographer Harry Pointer during the 1870s. He began his career taking natural pictures of cats, but soon realised that his photography had more success when the cats were in ridiculous poses. He even added captions to the images, such as Happy New Year, Five o clock Tea and Bring up the dinner Betsy as he found this made the images more successful still.

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