The World’s Most Expensive Portable Camera November 21, 2007
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Digital SLR cameras are expensive but they are the cream of the digital camera batch. Hell, they can cost thousands of pounds.
But if you really want to dent your bank account, you need a camera that’s at least 84 years old. This portable black Leica No. 107, from the prototype ‘O Series’, has just fetched around £240,000 in an auction.
It was one of a limited series of 20 cameras built in 1923 to test the market for portable cameras. According to the auctioneers, it’s in excellent nick and it still works.
The price makes it the second most expensive camera in the world. Still, £240,000 is a drop in the ocean compared to the £391,000 dropped earlier this year for an 1839 Daguerreotype by Susse Freres of France – the oldest commercially made camera.
At 13lbs though, it could hardly be classed as portable.-Martin Lynch
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