World Record! - Leica 0-Series no. 105

Leica prototype sets new world record: Leica 0-series no.105 sold for € 14.4 million
The serial production of the Leitz Camera, or Leica for short, the world's first 35mm camera, is considered a milestone in modern photography. Before the first cameras were available in the mid-1920s, Ernst Leitz produced around 23 models of the prototype 0 series in 1923 and 1924. One of these rare cameras - the 0-series no. 105 - has now been sold at the 40th Leitz Photographica Auction for a price of € 14.4 million including buyers' premium. The 105 has thus broken the world record for the most expensive camera of all time.

[@dongrandmaster3787]

This is How passion is valued and appreciated... combine this with Leica and Oskar Barnack and you get a world record only can be broken by the same combination

[@mikebaginy8731]

Congratulations! A handsome sum for owning a magnificent part of photographic history..

[@heizlindemann7886]

😊.......wenn nur die schreckliche Musik nicht wäre !

[@peterspruijt4265]

This belongs to the Leica museum, not a private investor….!

[@chrismunz8127]

It was auctioned by the leica museum in the leica museum

[@DecentGatsby]

*Still cheaper than a Contax T3*

[@muzmix123]

😂😂😂

[@andreasmi5120]

😂

[@wolfgang4078]

Wenn nur diese üble Hintergrundmusik dezenter wäre!?

[@powderedtoastman3093]

It should really belong in a museum in Leica HQ. But its definitely worth it considering Oscar Barnack was the man that started it all

[@chrismunz8127]

It was auctioned in the Leica Museum by Leica

[@dogtownheroes]

So cool! When engineering becomes art...🙌

[@anthonyazanon6160]

Still cheaper than what people are asking for the Fuji x100vi

[@r423sdex]

With people starving in the world !

[@youssefelgourch4576]

I have an old camera leica for sale

[@moilami1]

Suddenly M series digital cameras feel like bargains. Though, I should not say this, else price increases incoming.

[@TucsonBillD]

For those of us here in the US, that equals $15,040,000.

[@ekesandras1481]

+20% additional charge for auctioning costs

[@breakingworld1]

For those of you wondering who bought the camera... it went to a collector in Japan who put it in his private museum.

[@Lichtenstein1519WHauff]

und Dresden? - Exakta Varex
(bekommt Spiegelreflex nicht doch lieber Vorrang?)

[@oackgourmandi6061]

This is what I call a bargain!

[@дмитрийстрелков-е2ф]

This is what I call money laundering

[@sommelierofstench]

ok but how many megapixels do it have

[@LeicaCameraGlobal]

It's about 87 Megapixel 😉

[@bngr_bngr]

Film is capable of 140mp of resolution. I doubt that lens can resolve at the limit of film.

[@RemmyMusic1]

celebrating a billionaire spending 10 million on a wall piece 😂 we're living in a movie

[@bngr_bngr]

Do we know who bought the camera?

[@WhiteSlift]

@@bngr_bngr Rumors say someone from Asia.

[@gyozakeynsianism]

Yes, it is too bad you can't afford that.

[@RemmyMusic1]

@@gyozakeynsianism why you pressed 😂

[@ElNadaInLada]

@@bngr_bngr A guy from Japan who runs a photography museum

[@abbba2]

totally worth the price bro

[@slowbro1337]

This just makes me feel horrendously poor. The kind of struggling poor captured just trying to not go hungry that a street photographer with a Leica camera would capture.

[@hendrikeigenbrot6654]

Die Musik ist doch viel zu laut, merkt das keiner?

[@8kMotion]

Hallo Leica , ich bin im Besitz einer Leica mit der Seriennummer: 182589 , können Sie mir etwas darüber sagen da es keinerlei Infos über die Seriennummer gibt ? Ist es eine Kopie oder handelt es sich um ein Original?

[@rvishal6318]

Can't wait for Leica S4

[@PilipiHoops]

Such a nice camera. Went to thrist store yesterday, found the same thing for 5$. Little bit cheapers tho.

[@anonakkor9503]

hahhaaaa

[@guilherme0stevan]

What lens??

[@urshuber60perletto]

Und andere haben nichts zu Essen!!