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Rare Leica expected to fetch up to €2 million at next Wetzlar Camera Auction

Aug 22, 2023 by John Aldred 2 Comments
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The folks at Wetzlar Camera Auction have announced that their next auction will be coming up on October 7th, 2023. The company has also posted information on some of the items that will be there.

As usual, we’ve got the expected array of Leica and Leitz cameras and lenses, but there’s also a very interesting lens from Nikon in there, too.

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1959 Leica M3 sells for over $100K – 10x its listing price – in Swedish auction

Jul 28, 2023 by John Aldred 1 Comment
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A Leica M3 from 1959 has been sold at auction in Sweden. The auction was held by LP Fotos Auktioner in Stockholm, where the camera was listed with a SEK 110,000 (or around $10,460) asking price.

It seems that somebody wanted this camera really badly, however. The final hammer price was a whopping SEK 1,120,000, or around $106,485.

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Remarkable collection of iconic American photos is up for an auction

Apr 26, 2023 by Dunja Djudjic Add Comment
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Sotheby’s New York will soon offer a truly remarkable collection of photos up for auction. Among the sold works, you’ll be able to bid for the images by Richard Avedon, Dorothea Lange, Lee Friedlander, Robert Adams, Garry Winogrand, and other famous photographers.

While not all photographers are from the States, this body of work tells the story of American history. It contains some iconic photos such as Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother, and photos of celebrities like Andy Warhol or Marylin Monroe.

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This rare Nikkor-N 1.1/50mm lens to be up for auction in June

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Mar 13, 2023 by Dunja Djudjic Add Comment
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A very rare Nikkor-N 1.1/50mm lens will soon become available for you to buy. Introduced in 1950s, this is one of only 200 of these lenses with Leica M39 mount. And nearly seven decades later, one of these ultra-fast lenses is auctioning at Leitz Photographica Auctions.

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The only photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon could fetch $30,000 on an auction

Nov 22, 2022 by Dunja Djudjic 2 Comments
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On 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon. It was long believed that his reflection in Buzz Aldrin’s helmet was the only photo of him from the entire Apollo 11 mission. However, a rare print showing Armstrong is now on auction, expected to fetch up to $30,000.

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1970s Nikkor 58mm f/1.0 lens fetches record-breaking €187,500 in an auction

Oct 17, 2022 by Dunja Djudjic Add Comment
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We’ve seen our fair share of record-breaking cameras and lenses in terms of prices. And now, Nikon has broken its own record with the highest-ever price its lens fetched at an auction.

A super-rare 1970s Nikkor 58mm f/1.0 lens was sold for €187,500 (~$183,500) at the latest Wetzlar Camera auction. And this whopping price isn’t for nothing – the lens so rare that it seems to be the only one of its kind known to date.

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This rare 24x24mm Leica M prototype sold at auction for almost $700,000

Oct 12, 2022 by John Aldred 1 Comment
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The Wetzlar Camera Auction is always interesting and sometimes amusing to watch. Interesting to see some of the rare items that often seem to pop up and amusing because of the ridiculous sums of money that some people are willing to fork over in order to own them. And the recently concluded Wetzlar auction is no exception, where one person paid almost $700,000 for a rare 24x24mm Leica M prototype.

Before the auction began, the rare Leica was estimated to be worth around €8,000-10,000 but it went under the hammer for a whopping €687,500, which equates to around $668,000 in US currency at today’s exchange rate. With its square 24x24mm exposures, it was designed to capture 52 images on a roll of film rather than the standard 36 for the regular 35mm format.

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Elon Musk’s ex-girlfriend sells old photos of him for thousands of dollars

Sep 15, 2022 by Dunja Djudjic Add Comment
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Like all of the rich and famous, Elon Musk had a life long before he became the richest man in the world. And now pieces of that life have been sold, some for nearly $41,000. Musk’s ex-girlfriend put them up for an auction, and the majority of them include Musk’s old photos showing him as the young, baby-faced, and goofy man he once was.

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Oscar Barnack’s personal 0-series 1923 Leica breaks world record, fetches over $15 million at an auction

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Jun 13, 2022 by Dunja Djudjic Add Comment
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A rare Leica 0-Series No. 105 from 1923 recently went up from an auction. As it was Oscar Barnack’s personal camera, it was expected to break the record and fetch $3.3 million. However, it broke all the records and expectations, fetching over $15 million!

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The camera that shot the first spacewalk could be yours, starting at $3,000

Jun 2, 2022 by Dunja Djudjic Add Comment
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A camera that was used to shoot a Soviet space mission has been launched for an auction. Heritage Auctions is offering two Konvas Automat cameras, one of which was among the first cameras to ever go to space.

While you would expect historic pieces of gear like this to start bidding at hundreds of thousands of dollars, the bid has started at $3,000 only for each.

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