Leica LTM It's official - Leicas are the most expensive camera in the world

[kehng]

http://technabob.com/blog/2011/05/29/worlds-most-expensive-camera/

Sweet looking Barnack but $1.9m???

 

[Keith]

Ahhh ... capitalism!

Someone spends 1.1 million euros on a camera and everyone there applauds ... I feel much better now thanks!

 

[Mr_Flibble]

Just makes people hang on to theirs for much longer so I can't buy them

 

[sniki]

Who would have thought it!
;-)

 

[Phil_F_NM]

Wow.
For that kind of money, one could probably get close to sticking a full frame digital sensor into an M film body. I'm just sayin'

Gorgeous camera though. I've been wanting one of the early Leicas without RF for a while now.
But if I had 1.3 mil Euro, I'd buy a (cheaper) Ferrari, some gas, that plastic Nikon RF hood in the classifieds and have just enough left over for a burger and fries from a fast food joint.

 

[rogerzilla]

I'd spend it all on loose women, but each to their own.

 

[SimonSawSunlight]

I'd spend it all on loose women, but each to their own.

loose women and a bottle of whisky. and some more tri-x.

 

[Pherdinand]

yeah and Europeans do it too-not with SUVs, with houses.
Buying a house with a 30 years mortgage is insane if you think of it. But it's the norm, and you're a loser if you don't do it.

 

[jsrockit]

I'm sure the 1.9 mill is just play money for the buyer. No one can say what they would do since they are not in that person's shoes. You cannot fathom how your perspective would change if you have money until you actually have the money.

 

[hipsterdufus]

loose women and a bottle of whisky. and some more tri-x.

Now this sounds like the way to get some good pictures!

 

[lawnpotter]

I tried to buy it but I dialed the wrong number.

 

[Paul Luscher]

Guess I'm just not a romantic. Since I use my cameras, I'd rather have one of my Leica Ms than that $1M cameras. Much easier to use.

 

[Sonnar Brian]

So I'm guessing my $15 Black Leica III with nickel Elmar on it was a comparative bargain. And it has an RF.

People value things differently. I'm guessing that no one on RFF would spend $1.9M on a Leica, but everyone here would spend $15 on it.

Just a deep thought.

 

[kehng]

$15 sounds much better to me!

 

[gho]

loose women and a bottle of whisky. and some more tri-x.

I would swap the whiskey for another woman, the rest is fine though.

 

[rxmd]

So I'm guessing my $15 Black Leica III with nickel Elmar on it was a comparative bargain.

But how many loose women can you get for $15?

 

[Simon Bruxelles]

People scoffed when the same camera sold for $500,000 in 2007 but that buyer got a pretty good return on his money. Who is to say that with all the money sloshing around Russia and China that it won't be worth $10 million in ten years time?

 

[rxmd]

People scoffed when the same camera sold for $500,000 in 2007 but that buyer got a pretty good return on his money.

And so did the auction house...!

 

[Simon Bruxelles]

But how many loose women can you get for $15?

In Kyrgyzstan? Three.

 

[rxmd]

In Kyrgyzstan? Three.

Those are 1990s prices, we're in the WTO now