Film? Daguerrotype cameras used silverplated copper sheets. That's why
daguerrotype photo albums are, er, rather hard to find!!
Howard
William Wood wrote:
I thought it was odd that they listed it's weight at between 11 & 13
pounds. Perhaps their scale needed to be calibrated???? Maybe it was
11 lbs. without the film & 13 with?
-Bill
At 09:11 AM 5/27/2007, you wrote:
World's Oldest Camera Fetches $800,00 at Auction
Sunday, May 27, 2007
VIENNA, Austria - The world's oldest commercially produced camera -
built in 1839 in the early days of photography - was auctioned off
this weekend for nearly $800,000, an auction house said.
The camera, a Daguerreotype by Susse Freres of France, went to an
anonymous online bidder for $792,333, which also makes it the world's
most expensive camera, the Vienna gallery and auction house WestLicht
said in a statement.
The camera, which was found in an attic in Germany by a professor, is
made of soft wood and weighs between 11 and 13 pounds, WestLicht
director Peter Coeln told Austrian radio. He said it was likely to
have been built before August 1839.
"It was clear to me straight away that this was a camera from the
first year of photography," he said.
Bids were placed from around the world, including South Korea, Japan,
the U.S. and France. The starting price was $134,610.
