1923 Leica 0-series becomes world’s most expensive camera, fetches $1.89 million at auction
May 30th, 2011
Cameras are like cars, we pursue far more advance technologies day and night and yet still sought after classical cameras and cars for the vintage feeling. Here’s a good example, and a bloody expensive one too.
A 1923 Leica 0-series just got sold at an auction for €1,320,000. Funnily, the exact same auction house reportedly sold the exact same camera four years ago: No. 107, the first Leica to be exported, allegedly for a patent application inspection in New York.
In 2007, it fetched a relatively paltry €336,000, which was apparently still a world record for Leica cameras at the time. That particular dude sure earned a lot at there, and there’s no sign that this thing still works.
SOURCE via Herald
