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Recently I wrote a column for a magazine about my personal transition from film to digital 11 years ago.  In that column I mentioned that the invention of digital photography was the biggest change in the industry since Louis Daguerre’s ‘Daguerreotype’ amazed people in 1835.

Well, only a couple of days after writing this column I spotted the “Giroux Daguerréotype” up for auction at an Austrian auction house.

This camera was designed by Daguerre and his brother-in-law and sold in limited numbers from 1839.  To add to the value it features Daguerre’s signature and is in stunning condition.

If you have the time take the opportunity to learn a bit more about Louis Daguerre, one of the ‘fathers’ of photography.  It really is fascinating reading (did you know that the first know picture of Abraham Lincoln was a daguerrotype?)

The first know picture of Lincoln was this Daguerrotype

Further reading links – WestLicht Photographica Auction’s page on this camera, Louis Daguerre on Wikipedia, Daguerrotype on Wikipedia, Photograph on Wikipedia