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If you take photos for a living – or simply love the craft – you are probably like me in that you’ve spent more of your hard earned dough on cameras and photographic gadgetry than the average Joe. But would you be willing to pay 2 million dollars for a camera? That’s a whole new level of love for the magic light-box.
I’m referring to David Douglas Duncan‘s Leica M3, a camera that captured some of the most well known war images along with incredible portraits of his good friend Pablo Picasso. It was just sold for $2.19 million – making it the most expensive commercially manufactured camera ever to be sold.
Although this camera is special because of who wielded it and the incredible images that passed through its innards, it is also unique in that it is one of four Leica M3Ds ever created – the D stands for Duncan. Leica created this battle hardened camera specifically for him, so that he could get in the midst of the action without compromising the integrity of this remarkable tool.
Scroll down for some of Duncan’s famous images and ask yourself the question: if you had all the money in the world, would YOU pay 2 million for a camera with such a deep and rich history?
Is it worth $2M? Don’t know, how many megapixels? What’s the burst rate?
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If I had the money I would purchase then donate to a museum. A great piece of history that should be shared with the world.
The right question here would be: if you lived in a perfect world where there were not millions of people in starvation…
Having or not money for that is really an irrelevant point too make a decision although I have too agree that this camera is very special in many ways.
$2 Million for a camera! I hope that money went into doing something good for the less fortunate!
i agree… this camera is taking another picture of the world in which we live now
If you would pay two million for this, you’d pay twenty million for a renaissance master’s oil knife and a hundred million for Leonardo’s pencil. I’d pay no more than two grand for this camera and then I’d shoot it till there was no paint left and then some.