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His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej is
widely known for his interest in the field of photography. Some of these composite
images appeared herein this site were old pictures extracted from various sources
(beat me if you like .. for not able to provide appropriate credit to the respective
sources as most of the originals only had their names written in Thai).
Back in the '70~'80, for Single Lens Reflex System, His Majesty was noted to have
Canon system where many of the early days photos indicated he has used both Canon
A1/Canon AE-1 Program as well as
the autofocus Canon EOS bodies
at later stage. Leica was quoted in some reading references but I had not* seen a
public photo of His Majesty carrying any rangefinder body. Neither any public images
shown he was using medium format cameras. I guess one of the reason probably was
due to mobility and portability, the SLR well suit for the King's personal requirement
while on the move. Even within the EOS series, I have noticed the highest spec model
His Majesty uses** was a EOS 5 rather than the more cumbersome, heavy pro-oriented
models such as Canon EOS1N or
EOS-1N RS during the '90.
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Anyway, other than the LEICA Gold Edition issued in conjunction
with the royal celebration; I am not sure if any of you are aware there was also
a Hassleblad special edition in commemoration with the special occasion in 1996.
The medium format Hasselblad King
Bhumibol Adulyadej Golden Jubilee Year special
edition was comprised in an issue of 9
units of Hasselblad 203FE, 24 carat gold-plated in blue vinyl leather and another
was using Hasselblad 503CW with an issued quantity of 50 units only. All the cameras
were sold by auction with all proceeds arose being donated to various organization
as charity. I heard the highest bidder got hold of one of the earlier mentioned unit
for USD $50,000-00 !
<<<--- The
Hasselblad camera shown at the left was very similar with the Hasselblad Golden Blue
Model. I did a bad scan of it back in 1997. It has a gold-plated royal crest located
at the flip up viewfinder. *
As I am not residing in Thailand
and only made such assumption with the limited publication I can access from. ** via
personal observation/assessment through many PR photos published of His Majesty appeared
in the public events, you
may update or correct me
if I am wrong here.
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The 1996's LEICA M6 King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand Golden Jubilee Edition with matching gold plated SUMMICRON-M 1:2/50mm was the second
Leica M6 in the Series which carried a 24-carat Gold-plated finishing (after the
1992's
Silver Jubilee GOLD Edition for Sultan of Brunei Darrussalam model). Both almost has identical basic configuration except
for the lens supplied where the latter came with a faster lens speed SUMMILUX 1:1.4/50mm
lens in gold-plated finishing as the companion optic. The S/N for this edition was
beleieved to be started from 2000000 and the 1st unit could had been given to the
King. The remaining units
could had been started
from:- 2176001~2176700 for the the entire 700 units. Ref: Stephan Gandy.
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| As illustrated by the Certificate of Authentification
came along with the camera kit, the camera
was supplied as a kit in a white corrugated box, imprinted with a very prominent
/ colorful Crest. It contains a lovely wooden presentation box within which has the
same emblem engraved on a metal plate. The nature of the case looks like a Teak wood
rather than mohogany which was not entirely surprising as Thailand has always been
famous for this temperate nature hardwood. The display wooden case uses a newer type
of push-n-lock mechanism as opposed to older simpler designs. The plate with special
engraving couldn't be in 24 carat gold but it looks more like using 14k gold plating. |
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Mini Showcase on the edition
with other information that relates
Part One | Part Two
| Part Three
Relative: Leica
M6
Sultan of Brunei Darussalam Silver Jubilee Gold/Platinum
Edition, 1992
Leica M6 Sultan of Brunei Darussalam 50th Birthday Edition(s), 1995
Relative: Gold cameras (SLRs) outfit
Leica
M3 Gold, 1957 |
Leica M4-2 Gold | Nikon F Gold outfit | Canon F1 GOLD
| Nikon F2 GOLD
| Nikon FM GOLD
| Nikon
FA Limited Edition
GOLD
Pentax LX Limited Edition GOLD | Olympus OM2N Limited Edition GOLD
| for others please refer
to the Main Index Page
Main Index Page
- Leica M6-series models / Main Index Page - Leica-M Rangefinder
camera Models
Nomenclature / Main Reference Map for Leica M6 Standard Model(s) applicable to this M6 Gold Edition | Others:-
Leica
M6 TTL Model(s)
Instruction Manuals:- Leica M6 Classic in PDF (3.8mb) applicable to this Gold Edition by Niels H. S. Nielsen; Others:- Leica M6 TTL 3.6 Mb PDF) by Joe Chan
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