It may seem that moon and cosmos photography is a pretty new thing that came around during the previous 50 or 70 years. However, photographs of the Moon existed even in the 19th century. Find out about the oldest photograph of the Moon, when it was taken and by whom. Keep reading!

Currently we see a trend where so many people who were used to shooting with either Nikons or Canons would like to change their camera brand. However, if you are a professional photographer and have a lot of gear, it would be difficult to change all your lenses at once. This is why so many Nikon and Canon users are wondering whether they can use their lenses on a camera made by the other brand.

The short answer to this question is yes, you can use an adapter and shoot with Nikon lenses on a Canon DSLRs but not the other way around. Why is that?

In the world of mobile photography, iPhone cameras tend to lead the way in terms of image quality, sharpness, and colors for almost a decade since iPhone 1 was released in 2007. And though we make photos using our mobile phones almost daily—and most often we shoot using an iPhone—we don't really have the slightest notion about the focal length (or its 35mm equivalent) of the iPhone's lens and the size of the phone camera's sensor. Let's find it out.

Everybody knows—and someone is even dreaming of getting one—legendary Leica cameras which were the world's first compact cameras, but there aren't many people who know the meaning of the company's name. Let's find it out.

Space photography and Earth photography are big topics nowadays and life of any dweller of a big city would have been impossible without them. However, back in the old days it wasn't like that. Let's find out when the era of Earth and space photography started and how exactly it happened.

In the year 2016 we all feel so used to cameras in our smartphones that take high-quality pictures, but literally a decade ago a camera phone was something really new and unique. When was the world's first camera phone released and, more interestingly, how did people react to this news?

Nowadays DSLR vendors are playing an interesting marketing game which is fuelled by competition. It's about launching a camera—either point-and-shoot or DSLR—that will outdo all others in the number of megapixels. Half a century ago the game was almost the same, but the aim was different. The world's most renowned brands were competing in creating the fastest lens. What did they achieve?

Photography has been born about 150 years ago and if we are to think in these terms, autofocus in cameras becomes a pretty recent invention. When has it been added to SLRs and point-and-shoot cameras for the first time?

Back in 2015 we started publishing Interesting Facts about Photography in hour blog. For over a year this section has gathered dozens of cool photography facts that can make you laugh, raise the eyebrows in surprise, or even become a little sad or melancholic for a moment. Check out the 15 most interesting and exciting photography facts from our blog in this post.

You may have seen amazing portrait photos with killer bokeh that had something swirly about it. What is actually this effect, how does it work, how can you create it?