Scholar Helmut Gernsheim writes in his book The History of Photography: “Perhaps no other invention ever captured the imagination of the public to such a degree and conquered the world with such lightning rapidity as the daguerreotype. ”
عندما قُدِّم اختراع داڠير ،‏ المسمى التصوير الداڠيري ،‏ الى العالم سنة ١٨٣٩ ،‏ لقي استحسانا كبيرا .‏