Oldest Camera Breaks Sales Records June 06, 2007
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If you thought some new high-end digital cameras were expensive, then you should try getting your hands on some the oldest cameras in the world.
The most expensive snapper in the world just went under the hammer last week for a heart-stopping £391,000. Built in 1839, the camera – or the Daguerreotype by Susse Freres of France – is classed as the oldest commercially produced camera and was snapped up by an anonymous online bidder at the Vienna Gallery and Auction House.
Found in an attic [apparently the BBC isn’t lying and there really is Cash in the Attic], the professor [a.k.a. lucky git] that found it said:
“It was clear to me straight away that this was a camera from the first year of photography.”
However, weighing up to 13lbs, you’d have a job carting it around in your pocket.-Martin Lynch
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This is really cool, a museum piece. It's a wonder that there aren’t more of these wonderful works of art still surviving as it looks as if they were over-engineered.
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