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Tuesday, May 29, 2007

20070527 World's Oldest Camera Fetches $800,000 at Auction

World's Oldest Camera Fetches $800,00 at Auction

Sunday, May 27, 2007

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,275722,00.html

VIENNA, Austria — (AP)

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

Read the entire article here:

World's Oldest Camera Fetches $800,00 at Auction

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Pictured above - - one of the earliest known daguerreotype images:

L’Atelier de l'artiste : un daguerréotype de 1837, réalisé par l’inventeur de ce procédé photographique, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787-1851). Source: [Société française de photographie]. Date: 1837 Auteur: Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787-1851)

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