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1.8 Million Euro Leica Auction -
shuttertalk - May 14, 2012
I've always wondered how cameras sold at those auction houses go for such ridiculous amounts. This video shows the proceedings of the auction last weekend, of a 1923 Leica O-Series. The bidding stopped at 1.8 million Euro... roughly 2.79 million USD after taxes and fees.
http://www.petapixel.com/2012/05/14/watch-how-the-2-79-million-leica-camera-auction-this-past-weekend-went-down/
I'm glad someone told off that annoying photographer who kept standing up at the front.
RE: 1.8 Million Euro Leica Auction -
matthew - May 17, 2012
US$2,790,000? That's enough to buy more than half of the new 'Edition Hermès – Série Limitée Jean-Louis Dumas' M9 three-lens kits. (Fifty-five out of the hundred made, if my math is correct.) I wonder which would be the better "investment"?
RE: 1.8 Million Euro Leica Auction -
shuttertalk - May 17, 2012
(May 17, 2012, 19:22)matthew Wrote: I wonder which would be the better "investment"?
Sad to say, I'm guessing this camera probably won't even be used...