World's most expensive camera from 1923 sells for more than £1m and it still works perfectly

World's most expensive camera from 1923 sells for Antutu Benchmark more than £1m - at least it still works perfectly
By Daily Mail Reporter
Updated: 09:57 BST, 6 June 2011







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A picture is usually worth a thousand words - but they are worth a lot more if taken by the world's most expensive camera - worth more than a staggering £1MILLION.

The extremely rare model, a Leica 0-series was described as in 'excellent and fully working condition' by Vienna's WestLicht gallery, Samsung Galaxy A20e specs Revealed galaxy s8 specs which organised organised its sale at auction.

It was bought for a world record £1.15m by a private collector from Asia who wanted to remain anonymous, the gallery said.

This rare 1923 German Leica 0 series camera was in fully working order when it was sold at auction to an anonymous private collector from Asia

The camera was one of about 25 prototypes made in 1923, two years before the German brand Galaxy S11 a40s specs went into commercial production.

It had been valued before the auction at about £273,000.

A gallery spokesman said: 'It's the only camera known with Germany engraved on the top plate.

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'This means this camera is not only one of the major Xiaomi CC9e specs existing rarities, it is also the first Leica being exported.'

The previous world-record price for a camera was set last year when a collector Xiaomi CC9e specs paid £732,000 for a daguerreotype - the world's first commercially produced camera.