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The quality of that photo is so bad that it arguably hardly counts as anything, I cannot even understand it's head position. I bet most people wouldn't recogniz
by mattigames 2y ago
The quality of that photo is so bad that it arguably hardly counts as anything, I cannot even understand it's head position. I bet most people wouldn't recognize it as a cat unless you tell them first that its supposed to be one.
- Nition 2y agoThe head is on the far left, drinking from the saucer.
- msephton 2y agoSo only "good" first photos should count?
- mattigames 2y agoNon-smudged photos yeah, otherwise you could say any smudge of colors is any animal you claim.
- LoganDark 2y agoIt's Bigfoot!
- mattigames 2y agoNow I'm wondering what was the first viral fake photo of big foot
- msephton 2y agoI mean, the photo is clearly a cat drinking milk from a saucer. Details and alternative cat photos that are as old (which is "first" is unknown) https://workman.tumblr.com/post/120829319747/houghtonlib-houghtonlib-this-daguerreotype https://workman.tumblr.com/post/120829319747/houghtonlib-hou...
- mattigames 2y ago"clearly" is such a stretch, this photo would be completely useless to someone who has never seen a cat before, they wouldn't learn to recognize it from such picture alone, the other photos you linked do look a lot better.
- walrus01 2y agoThis is a very uninformed comment if you understand even the most rudimentary of the problems involved in early photography and the history of the daguerrotype and photograph, specifically, that exposures needed to be multiple seconds long to capture an image.
- andrewflnr 2y agoThe real problem looks like glare, at least to my rudimentarily informed eye.
- walrus01 2y agoLenses and optics in general were also extremely rudimentary at that time, it looks to me like a combination of the cat moving during an 8 second exposure and a hand-ground lens.
- mattigames 2y agoYes I know about exposure, this isn't about the technical qualms of any giving photograph but the utility it has for the general public by being smudged to this degree.