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[Roberta]

SP. you are about a century off with regard to the technology.

I think that in the 1940's probably something more like the Speed Graphic, that was very popular with press photographers. Speed Graphic - Wikipedia
https://www.ebay.com/b/4-x5-Press-Fi...30/bn_67391427
For the smaller format, Rolleiflex was also popular (along with Hasselblad)

In Singapore that that time, I'd suspect that one of the German cameras was very likely.

[SouthPark]

Originally Posted by Roberta

SP. you are about a century off with regard to the technology.

Roberta ----- my post was in relation to what possible camera may have been the very first one to have taken a photograph of an orchid flower ----- for the very first time in earth history.

Possibilities are - photograph captured out in the 'wild' with a sort of portable earliest camera. Or an orchid taken into the 'lab' or work-area, where the camera system is located.

It's in relation to this :

Originally Posted by My Green Pets

That's amazing. I wonder when (& what) the first photograph of an orchid flower was.