Most Expensive Camera

by Hunter Davis

When I hear the phrase, “most expensive camera”, I imagine a super high-tech digital camera, maybe one used in space by NASA to take pictures of Mars or the moon or some cool camera capable of going under water to extreme depths.

I was a little surprised to hear that a Daguerreotype camera dating back to 1839 is likely to become the world’s most expensive camera and will be sold at auction in May 2007. The camera designed by Frenchman Susse Freres is housed in a sliding wooden box frame and is also speculated to be the oldest camera in the world, heightening its appeal to collectors.

A Daguerreotype image is achieved by producing a direct image onto a polished silver surface. This way of producing photographs was one of the earliest advances in camera technology but its unconventional attributes like the inability to produce copies made it obsolete within a decade.

The soon to be most expensive camera is currently owned by a scholar in the US who inherited it from his dad. The bidding will start at $132,000 US, but the old and expensive camera expected to fetch over $1 million at the auction in Vienna, Austria.

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