CAMERA HISTORY CAKES
DAGUERRÉOTYPE
PIXEL STAFF
FACE-STUFFING
CAMERA TO BE AUCTIONED
SHOCKER
On the 29th of May WestLicht in the ‘Journal des Débats’. Take note: this is how to get your
Photographica Auction in There is no record of the post noticed! Fujifi lm were kind
Vienna, Austria will auction total number of cameras enough to send us the images
a historical sensation: a ‘ that Giroux produced, but and info we needed nestled
Daguerréotype’ - the fi rst since cheaper and improved of the 170 year-old apparatus amidst a rather delicious batch
commercially-produced camera! cameras came onto the market is remarkable. Never before of cupcakes. We had to get them
The wooden sliding-box camera relatively quickly, it is assumed has a camera of this kind been to email us this photo, because
was made in Paris in September that the numbers were very offered for sale by auction. An by the time we’d got the offi ce
1839 by Alphonse Giroux, limited. Only very few of these original manual in German camera out, there were only
Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre’s cameras are known to exist language from 1839 is also crumbs to be found...
brother-in-law. Daguerre, the worldwide and all of those are in included in this sensational sale.
inventor of the fi rst practicable public museum collections. It is expected that WestLicht
photographic process, signed The Giroux ‘Daguerreotype’ Auctions’ own world record
the camera to verify its up for auction has been found price of €576,000 for a
authenticity. Only fi ve days after recently. It was in private camera will be signifi cantly
the fi rst public announcement ownership in northern Germany exceeded.
of photography on August 24th for generations and has never Starting price is €200.000,
1839, the fi rst advertisement for before been documented. The the estimate is €500,000 –
the ‘Daguerréotype’ is printed outstanding original condition 700,000.
PIXEL CALLING
PIXEL CALLING
PIXEL CALLS ANDY ROBINSON, DIRECTOR, J & A CAMERAS, DEVON TO ASK
“HOW’S BUSINESS?”
Indifferent. Not many people through. There is money to be The potential for this year is
around at the moment - it seems found out there, it’s just the same good. Our other side of the
that the High Street is dead. This old chestnut of getting your hands business, our photography
could of course be due to the on it. We continue to grumble studio is doing really well, in fact
time of year, as most of North about about margins etc! We’re we’re fully booked with weddings attend primarily to gain some
Devon goes skiing around this still selling lots of camera bags, etc. Photo restoration is going inspiration and leafl ets, possibly
time. Things are not brilliant but batteries and accessories. well and we have also sold meet some celebs! I think it
we are holding out for a great We haven’t managed to sell quite a few slide scanners. We is important for us to support
wave of optimism. much in the way of black and recently trialled selling Hawke/ the show as it is really the
Camcorders are doing very white chemicals for a while. Deben wax jackets and it’s going only major show that is for
well at the moment as well as We have noticed a decline in exceptionally well. photography these days and as
passport photos. We keep sales of digital frames but we I suspect that new Olympus a retailer, I feel duty bound to
putting up the price of passport think this is due to the fact that PEN EPL1 will do extremely well support this event. I’m hoping
photos as it is a good way of lots of cheaper ones have been especially if it is as good as it that I will bump into a rep that
making money. SLRs are doing sold through mass channel, sounds. We have them on order will buy me lunch!
well. All items are selling but supermarkets etc, and they’re not but have not received them yet. I know this isn’t Q&A but
nothing outstanding. We’ve very good quality so people think I have attended Focus every this joke was passed on
been lucky that we have they’re rubbish and don’t bother year and every year I say I am to me by the Alpha-Digital
received a few large orders investing in better ones. They’ve not going to attend the next but Rep, Miles “Chopper”
lately like 15 x D5000s which sort of destroyed their own as the show gets nearer, I fi nd Thompson: What’s red and
will be very good if it comes market in that sense. that I get bitten by the bug. I invisible? No tomatoes!
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