goldengod

Less than an hour after posting my Zenit KGB Photosniper entry, fellow Vancouver blogger Greg of dingoRUE got back to me about my request for other wacky cameras. Made by a company I’ve never even heard of called Minox, the DC-1011 Carat is a 10 megapixel digital camera. The wackiness? It’s gold plated, of course! We’ve got gold plated everything-fucking-else, so why not a digital camera?

The Minox DC 1011 special edition has a gold plated outer skin of 24 carat gold with ten 2mm diamonds at 0.03 carat each adorning the lens.

Furhter investigation into this company show at least a couple other strange digital cameras, including models designed to look like an ancient Rolleiflex twin lens reflex, an older model gold-plated camera, a camera that looks like a bad 70’s futuristic frisbee studded with diamonds, and a miniaturized digital version of an old film Leica. Personally, the digital Rolleiflex is the strange camera that really stands out to me.

It seems I must cut this entry short, as I’m expected at the Talk Like A Pirate Day Flashmob shortly. Yarr!