Camera sold for $2.19 million

[Brian Sims]

http://seattletimes.com/html/entertainment/2019766165_apeuaustriacamera.html

Wow!

[drew.saunders]

Here's a little more about that and two other very rare cameras that were sold at the same auction. The Seattle Times article seems to be overly concerned with the fact that the camera was used to shoot Picasso, as opposed to the fact that Leica only made 4 of them.

http://leicarumors.com/2012/11/24/the-three-most-expensive-serial-production-leica-cameras-sold-for-e3-6-million-at-the-latest-westlicht-auction.aspx/

[E. von Hoegh]

I wonder did the pictures of Picasso come out with both eyes on the same side of his nose?

[Ed Richards]

Any LF cameras ever fetch high prices?

[Len Middleton]

Don't let the brass lens cartel find out about this, as the price of brass might start approaching that of gold... :D

[Hugo Zhang]

Some of lenses...

https://www.westlicht-auction.com/index.php?id=2402231&acat=2402231&_ssl=off

[Ari]

Meh, a K-1000 can do pretty much the same thing.

[Sevo]

And such a tiny one too - just think what impact this must have on our much bigger ones! ;-)

[C. D. Keth]

It would be a leica.

[Marc B.]

Among the cameras constructed by the Soviets for their planned lunar expeditions and offered for the first time here, the “Arsenal Kiev SKD Space Camera” (10,000 Euro) achieved a price of 57,600 Euro

Wow...A $74,800 Kiev.

[Kerik Kouklis]

Meh, a K-1000 can do pretty much the same thing.

Except sell for $2,000,000.

[ImSoNegative]

i wonder did the pictures of picasso come out with both eyes on the same side of his nose?

lmao

[C. D. Keth]

Wow...A $74,800 Kiev.

That is pretty impressive. I wonder if hasselblad will ever have to fork over the reward for the apollo 11 camera. It was left and they offer to this day a $1M reward for its return.

[Ivan J. Eberle]

I've got an extremely rare, and very beautiful, Meridian 45CE technical camera. Provenance is interesting, to say the least; couldn't find anyone to confirm that it existed until sometime after this one turned up unexpectedly at auction and I won it. With only enough prototypes made to flesh out a brochure, and never having gone into production, it's rare as any Leica ever described. What it has in common with just about every other 4x5 ever made, is image quality blows away any 35mm Leica due to sheer real estate of the negative.

But it seems unlikely it's value will ever reach into 5 figures no matter how long I hold onto it. So I use it to make beautiful images.

[Emil Schildt]

Any LF cameras ever fetch high prices?

not quite I think, but getting there...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,275722,00.html

[cgrab]

But it seems unlikely it's value will ever reach into 5 figures no matter how long I hold onto it. So I use it to make beautiful images.

Who's to tell, inflation is your friend. in the meantime, enjoy!

Christoph

[Neal Chaves]

Sad that cameras will always sell for more than photographs. Imagine DaVinci's paint brush selling for more than the Mona Lisa?

[Ari]

Except sell for $2,000,000.

Hi-yo! Nice one.

[Brian C. Miller]

Sad that cameras will always sell for more than photographs. Imagine DaVinci's paint brush selling for more than the Mona Lisa?

Andreas Gursky, Rhein II, $4,338,500 (link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_photographs)).

Worth two Leicas.

[eddie]

That is pretty impressive. I wonder if hasselblad will ever have to fork over the reward for the apollo 11 camera. It was left and they offer to this day a $1M reward for its return.

i think they need to up the offer!

[Math]

Sad that cameras will always sell for more than photographs. Imagine DaVinci's paint brush selling for more than the Mona Lisa?


Actually, photographs have always sold for more then cameras, so I'm not sure what you're basing this on! If you look at the prices photographs fetch on auctions it's often way above this record of 2.19 million.