{"id":237724,"date":"2010-01-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5458151"},"modified":"2010-01-27T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T15:00:00","slug":"worlds-oldest-and-most-expensive-camera-hits-the-auction-block-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/237724","title":{"rendered":"World’s Oldest and Most Expensive Camera Hits the Auction Block [Cameras]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daguerreotype cameras are the great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfathers of the devices we use for snapshots today. Recently the earliest—and with an expected price of 700,000 euro, the most expensive—examples of such a camera was rediscovered in a private collection.<\/p>\n

If you’ve got between 200,000 euro, the auction’s starting price, and 700,000 euro, the expected final price, and a weakness for old, wooden sliding-box cameras then this one’s for you. It’s got the signature of its name sake, Jacques Mande Daguerre, and was actually built by his brother-in-law.<\/p>\n

This is a neat piece of shutterbug history and I truly hope that it ends up in a museum collection where it can be viewed by the public rather than disappearing into another private basement museum. [Slashgear<\/a>]<\/p>\n



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Daguerreotype cameras are the great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfathers of the devices we use for snapshots today. Recently the earliest—and with an expected price of 700,000 euro, the most expensive—examples of such a camera was rediscovered in a private collection. If you’ve got between 200,000 euro, the auction’s starting price, and 700,000 euro, the expected final price, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}