World's oldest camera fetches nearly 600,000 Euros at auction

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The world's oldest commercially-produced camera, an 1839 Susse Freres wooden box daguerreotype unit, sold at auction in Vienna on May 25th for €588,613 (about US$792,000 at current exchange rates).

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[messenjah]

itz so big itz almost impossible to bring around...n from the pic it looks like itz made frm wood...cool...

 

[Ansel]

itz so big itz almost impossible to bring around...n from the pic it looks like itz made frm wood...cool...

What do you expect a camera from 1839 to be made of? Plastic? ;p

Well done! :thumbsup:

 

[rodel]

What do you expect a camera from 1839 to be made of? Plastic? ;p

Well done! :thumbsup:

Carbon fiber

 

[photo-boy]

What do you expect a camera from 1839 to be made of? Plastic? ;p

Well done! :thumbsup:

Haa haa haa....:bsmilie:

For those of us old enough to remember the days of film and further back.....there was a time when cameras weren't completely plastic. Even the simple Kodak disc had metal bodies.

There was a time when press photogs were lugging around a medium format collapsible camera. And that WAS the portable camera of its days.

Everything is getting smaller - cameras, cars, salary (no thanks to GST increase - well, maybe only civil service salary is the exception to this rule) and even housing.

Very soon, our next generation would think eggs are made in the supermarkets. :bigeyes: