The chicken or the egg? There was always that controversy as to which came first? Here is a new one that is just down our alley.

DaveD65 Loc: Queen City, Ohio

There was always that controversy as to which came first? Here is a new one that is just down our alley.

Rongnongno Loc: FL

This is good for the peanut Gallery

Bill_de Loc: US

DaveD65 wrote:

There was always that controversy as to which came first? Here is a new one that is just down our alley.

Not sure that OP is showing anything new????
Maybe somebody walked down a blind alley?

https://fakehistoryhunter.net/2022/02/21/not-the-worlds-first-camera

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Horseart Loc: Alabama

The world's second camera!

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Try to mentally picture coating the glass wet plates just prior to exposure. You would need buckets of collodian. And who made sheets of glass that huge in the first place ?

And speaking of glass, for the requisite FL the f/stop must be well up into triple digits. Kinda weird that the lens has been deleted from the image. 19th century National Security Secret ?

SuperflyTNT Loc: Manassas VA

Bill_de wrote:

Not sure that OP is showing anything new????
Maybe somebody walked down a blind alley?

https://fakehistoryhunter.net/2022/02/21/not-the-worlds-first-camera

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I’m pretty sure that was the point. If it was the world’s first camera who took the photo of it?

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

DaveD65 wrote:

There was always that controversy as to which came first? Here is a new one that is just down our alley.

Very bad post, the guy by the lens built it in 1899-1900. Long after the first camera was made.
FAKE NEWS.
Yet another example of a BAD POST.
Please go away and bother someone else.

SuperflyTNT Loc: Manassas VA

billnikon wrote:

Very bad post, the guy by the lens built it in 1899-1900. Long after the first camera was made.
FAKE NEWS.
Yet another example of a BAD POST.
Please go away and bother someone else.

Again missing the point. He wasn’t posting it as true. He was posting it because the included comment made a funny observation. If that was the first camera, what took the photo of it?

SuperflyTNT Loc: Manassas VA

User ID wrote:

Try to mentally picture coating the glass wet plates just prior to exposure. You would need buckets of collodian. And who made sheets of glass that huge in the first place ?

And speaking of glass, for the requisite FL the f/stop must be well up into triple digits. Kinda weird that the lens has been deleted from the image. 19th century National Security Secret ?

Maybe it was a Canon or a Sony Pro lens. 😜🤪

MosheR Loc: New York City

Horseart wrote:

The world's second camera!

Great answer!

Mark Sturtevant Loc: Grand Blanc, MI

Some don't understand that this is supposed to be tongue in cheek. A joke.

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

SuperflyTNT wrote:

Again missing the point. He wasn’t posting it as true. He was posting it because the included comment made a funny observation. If that was the first camera, what took the photo of it?

But if you know it isn't the first camera, it kind of ruins the joke.

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

DaveD65 wrote:

There was always that controversy as to which came first? Here is a new one that is just down our alley.

That camera if it even is a real photograph came long after the first few cameras. There are some good books about the history of photography out there.

To answer the Title Question about the Chicken & Egg, I would say The Dinosaur.

SuperflyTNT Loc: Manassas VA

JohnSwanda wrote:

But if you know it isn't the first camera, it kind of ruins the joke.

Not really, since the joke is based on the idea that it wasn’t really the first camera.

SuperflyTNT Loc: Manassas VA

lamiaceae wrote:

That camera if it even is a real photograph came long after the first few cameras. There are some good books about the history of photography out there.

To answer the Title Question about the Chicken & Egg, I would say The Dinosaur.

The dinosaur or the dinosaur egg?