I've got an extremely rare, and very beautiful, Meridian 45CE technical camera. Provenance is interesting, to say the least; couldn't find anyone to confirm that it existed until sometime after this one turned up unexpectedly at auction and I won it. With only enough prototypes made to flesh out a brochure, and never having gone into production, it's rare as any Leica ever described. What it has in common with just about every other 4x5 ever made, is image quality blows away any 35mm Leica due to sheer real estate of the negative.
But it seems unlikely it's value will ever reach into 5 figures no matter how long I hold onto it. So I use it to make beautiful images.
not quite I think, but getting there...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,275722,00.html
Sad that cameras will always sell for more than photographs. Imagine DaVinci's paint brush selling for more than the Mona Lisa?
Andreas Gursky, Rhein II, $4,338,500 (link).
Worth two Leicas.
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