The World's Oldest Camera

Posted By Guest on January 27, 2010

The oldest and most expensive camera in the world

Peter Coeln, the CEO of WestLicht Photographica with World's Oldest Camera

Peter Coeln, the CEO of WestLicht Photographica Auction in Vienna with the 1839 Daguerreotype, the first commercially-produced camera in the world. The camera will be sold at auction on on May 29th. The estimated sale price will be $750,000 and $1 million.

The 1839 'Daguerreotype Giroux,' The first commercially-produced camera in the world

The label of the 'Daguerreotype Giroux' from 1839, which is signed by the inventor Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre to verify its authenticity