Saturday, March 10, 2018

NEW RECORD PRICE FOR LEICA CAMERA






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Photo: WestLicht Photographica Auction

An example of a prototype Leica 0 series camera from 1923 achieved a new record price ever for a camera.  It was sold during an auction last Saturday by WestLicht of Vienna for 2.4 million euros, $2.96 at the current exchange rate.  The camera was bought by a private camera collector from Asia.

A similar camera with the serial number 116, also auctioned by WestLicht, held the previous record of $2.79.  Of the originally approximately 25 produced cameras, only three survive in the original condition.  The camera which sold last Saturday is by far the one in the best condition.  Westlicht had estimated its value at 700 to 900 thousand Euros in their auction catalog.




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  1. Wilson LaidlawMarch 10, 2018 at 11:58 AM

    I hope that might push up the price of the replica 0 Series a bit. I had been keeping an eye on them and bought a mint one pretty much unopened in its box, with leather case, for £600. They had been dropping steadily in price but I am hoping that the price I bought at might be the bottom of the market. The problem is as user cameras, they are wildly impractical with the lens plug in and out all the time and having to half wind on to change shutter slit gap (shutter speed). I have the earlier one with the dreadful wire frame finder (my arms are not quite long enough to bring its minuscule image into focus), so I use a Leitz SBOOI 50mm bright line finder. The later version has the better reverse Galilean finder as on the 1 series but then Leica went and spoilt it with a tacky stencilled on picture of Oskar Barnack on the back, something as essentially a modest man, I am sure he would have hated. Wilson

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