📷📷💰💰 The 15 Million USD Camera 💰💰📷📷
Back again with one of those crazy auction stories I love to share! Usually it's about coins and stuff so this one a bit different.
So, back in 2022 in the "40th Leitz Photographica Auction" a camera from the 1920s sold for 15 fucking million dollars 🤯🤯🤯
That's a really impressive number considering how the auction house estimated a price of 2 million $ with a starting bid of 1.000.000 $.
But what makes this camera so unique to fetch this ridiculous amount of money?
Labeled as "Leica 0-Series No. 105", it was part of a limited series of just 23 prototypes produced to test the market before Leica commenced commercial production in the mid-1920s. Today only a handful of those survive so it's clearly rare.
But this particular one is even more special.
It was the one used personally by Oskar Barnack, the inventor of the Ur-Leica and a pioneer of 35mm photography. He used it until sometime in the 1930s and later passed it to his son. It remained in the family and was eventually passed to a collector sometime in the 1960s.
Tldr, a camera with lots of historical significance. Is the price justified?
Doubt it, but rich people gonna rich. It's amazing what people with fuck you money will buy 😂
Fyi, the previous record was also held by a Leica 0-Series camera. That one fetched only about 3 million usd in 2018... Yeah, cheap change 😅
You can read a bit more on the story here if you like.
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crazy price, I would rich that model with my fuck you money for sure if I had that type of fuck you money…
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Better tax write off than some stupid art, at least this piece is really cool :D
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True 😂
3 million usd in 2018... Yeah, cheap change 😅, Hahaha. A life changing cheap change.
15 million! The rich keep wanting to depress you. Hahahaha. I have to start preserving some things that will sell big in the later generation
Good luck with that lol
That’s crazy for a useless camera now a days. It’s a 15 million dollar paperweight.
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Still worth more than your whole stack 😂😂😂
By a long shot….
I wonder if it still works... People have money to throw
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Doubt it lol
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I have a bunch of old cameras I'm selling for half the price. It's worth a quarter of that but this is my last offer.
So only 8 million? 😂😅
Rich people gonna rich indeed!
And Leicas are pretty good (and expensive) cameras, and this one does have quite some history to it…
But that is ridiculously expensive!
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Ridiculous only for plebs like us 😅😂
Speak for yourself dude! I'm royalty!!! ;-)
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Worth the price for the crazy rich people. Its historical value determined the price.
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This is a very nice collection I must say . I wonder how much my late grandad's polaroid camera will cost now .
I guess you can check on ebay? :D
Thank you ! I'll try that out !!
When you're rich you can waste your money on all sorts of weird shit...
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This looks like the camera in. Twilight Zone episode 📸
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Only ten pics per customer!
Anyone get reference?
I don't, lol
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It sounds like something for people with too much money. It probably doesn't matter to most of us.
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I probably won't buy it even if I have a ton of money. I just don't see the value in it despite its history. But then again, I don't have the money so I don't understand how rich people think 😅
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The camera is amazing, its price will increase in the future.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1jhlh03/the_most_expensive_camera_ever_sold15m_for_this/
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!DIYSTATSThis ain't just a camera man, it's fine art. But seriously I'm imagining paying Fifteen million for an old camera, it's going to have to take pictures of the future 🤣. Just wish I'll be gifted this and sell it for crypto.
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That's bonkers!