Leitz Photographica

One of just a dozen known specimens of the legendary Leica 0-Series will sell on 7 October 2023 at Wetzlar Camera Auctions

Photography

One of the original Leica 0-Series prototypes from 1923 is for sale

A century ago, 23 prototype 35-mm cameras were produced to test the revolutionary design, leading to the creation of the landmark Leica A camera in 1925. Just 12 of those Leica 0-Series originals are known today and one is going to auction on October 7.

One of Leica's 250 GG cameras fitted with the first 35mm camera motor drive (the"Leica-Motor MOOEV") and 250-frame cassette housing, set a new world record price at auction for the model on 10 June 2023 when it sold for €900,000 (US$967,410). It narrowly missed becoming just the 14th camera in history to sell for more than US$1 million.

Collectibles

75-year-old Leica Reporter camera & motor-drive sets world-record price

One of Leica's 250 GG "Reporter" cameras fitted with a "Leica-Motor MOOEV,” the world’s first 35mm camera motor drive unit, has gone within a whisker of becoming the 14th camera to ever sell for more than US$1 million.

When the hammer came down on 11 June 2022 in Vienna, Leitz Photographica had broken its own world auction record for the seventh consecutive time. Apart from a charity auction (which we don't count), only 12 cameras have ever sold for more than a million dollars, all of them at Leitz Photographica.

Photography

$15 million Leica camera was owned by the man who democratized photography

Vienna’s Leitz Photographica Auctions celebrated its 20th year in business this week when it sold the camera of the man who invented 35-mm photography for €14,400,000, smashing the previous world record of €2,400,000.