Friday, June 17, 2011

Leica 0-Serie Nr.107, World's Most Expensive Camera


Leica 0-Serie Nr.107, World's Most Expensive Camera
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Usually for high-priced cameras are required to have advanced features and newest, such as Carl Zeiss lens or telephoto, dozens megapixel resolution, image stabilization, and others.
But the terms and the above criteria do not apply to the camera on this one. The cameras 'Leica 0-Serie Nr.107' made in 1923, is the most expensive camera in the world today with a price of U.S. $ 1.9 million (16.2 billion rupiah)
WestLicht, an auction company in Vienna - Austria has auctioned 88-year-old Leica camera with an opening price of U.S. $ 286,000 before being sold to a collector from Asia for U.S. $ 1.9 million.
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So what makes this special Leica cameras and become the world's most expensive camera?
Leica Camera is a production of the 7 by 25 cameras from Leica 0-Serie Nr.107 ever produced. Originally intended only to test the market interest of Leica cameras, exactly two years before mass-producing the series Leica Camera Leica A. Based on the record Leica, the camera is Leica's first time exported out of her native Germany to New York - United States. Spoiler for Leica 0-Series Nr.107:
Most expensive cameras record previously held by Giroux daguerreotype made in 1839 worth U.S. $ 700,000 and is the camera that was first mass-produced.
Giroux daguerreotype