If you had $US625,000, this Panavision PSR 35mm camera could have been yours. Which is expensive. But it also happened to have filmed most of Star Wars. So, yeah, money well spent.
The beautiful late-60s camera was purchased at auction from Hollywood starlet of decades ago, Debbie Reynolds, who had been holding onto it for some reason. Closet Star Wars fan? The new owner is anonymous, but I can tell you with great certainty that it isn’t me. The camera will now sit in some other very wealthy person’s home, where it will be briefly pointed out at occasional dinner parties, and make the holder feel better about their empty husk of a soul. As Han Solo once said, “IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM.” [Guardian via PetaPixel]
cayal
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 3:45 PMOnly money well spent if it has the unaltered Star Wars included.
Ozoneocean
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 3:51 PMDebbie Reynolds? The mother of Carrie Fisher, duh! Why even write about Starwars if you don’t know that?
She was hardly a “starlet” at that stage either.
cayal
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 4:16 PMDo you get off on being an aggressive dickwad all the time?
Ozoneocean
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 10:38 PMYes, I am hard right now.
You’re certainly one to talk though ;)
TSH
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 3:59 PMDefinitely not worth it IMHO, but that’s me.
Han Solo’s pistol prop? Indiana Jones’ hat? Obi-Wan’s lightsaber prop? Those are things that *might* be worth such a stupendous sum.
Martin
Friday, December 9, 2011 at 6:25 AMAn items value is determined by how much the market will pay for it… obviously it was worth 600k to someone.
John
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 4:45 PMYou could make a film with it and then promote it as “from the camera that brought you Star Wars”. Might be worth the money then.
SJ
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 5:30 PMIndiana Jones said “IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM” not Han Solo….
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 8:50 PMlol, we know.