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Sebastian Oakley

I think this camera will break records: 100-year-old Leica goes to auction

Leica 0-series no.121

If you are a Leica loyalist, you might know the significance of the Leica 0-series of cameras and how it changed the world in photography as we know it today – and how it developed the best Leica cameras of the future. To the untrained eye, though, this just looks like an old camera our grandmother might have used back in the day.

That is far from the truth with these special cameras; the Leica 0-series were the first production prototypes of any Leica camera. There were roughly 22-25 copies produced, 2 years before the official Leica camera was launched.

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