Did You Know…

• In 1888, Mr. George Eastman, of Rochester, New York owner of Kodak decided he wanted to have a unique name for his company. In his own words: I devised the name myself. The letter ‘K’ had been a favorite with me — it seems a strong, incisive sort of letter. It became a question of trying out a great number of combinations of letters that made words starting and ending with ‘K.’ The word ‘Kodak’ is the result.

• It is believed that he named his company after the sound that he thought the camera shutter made.

• The first digital camera offered to consumers was only 1.4 mega-pixels and cost around $10,000.

• The most expensive camera in the world named “Daguerreotype” is 168-year-old and belongs to a US-based scholar, who inherited it from his father, a technical photography professor at Munich University. The starting bid is $132,000.