Susse Freres Daguerreotype Camera
Top 2 in Top 10 Most Expensive Cameras
The Susse Freres Daguerreotype Camera, which costs $978,000, is ranked second on our list of the most expensive cameras.
This is the oldest camera ever constructed (1893).
It's also one of the first two commercially available cameras.
Alphonse Giroux created it, and Jacques Mande Daguerre signed it. It could be a true masterpiece of art for ardent photographers.
The camera was designed to capture the entire plate and was optimized for landscape photography. Believe it or not, the handmade lens by opticians accounted for a large portion of the cost of this camera.
