Do you count photography as one of your geek passions? In the past couple of years I can certainly raise my hand to that, being interested in the principles of both film and digital photography, technical aspects, composition and art. It’s all very well drooling over the latest Canon or Nikon DSLR whose body alone costs a few thousand dollars without even adding some decent lenses, but that outlay counts as nothing when up against an auction to be held in Vienna later this year. The world’s oldest commercial production camera, the “Daguerreotype”, is a wooden sliding-box camera made in Paris in 1839 by Alphonse Giroux. There are only a Read more »
