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If YOU had Won Null Series #122 for $2.9 Million.....


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I would not spend a penny for such an outrageous financial outlier.

I have my eyes on a large building housing a big bar, storage space,

garages, and five apartments. I would level it to the ground and establish a supervised

playground with weather shelters for children, and an investment fund to

support it after my demise. We all have a dream. Cameras are not part of mine.

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Firstly, this was a bid auction and not a raffle. One has to assume that the purchaser has the means to purchase the camera and also has the common sense to do due diligence. There are experts out there, known to most serious collectors, who will do such due diligence. I know some of them and I suspect so do most of the regular collectors on this forum. Westlicht will have done likewise as they have their reputation to maintain. One must also assume that the previous owner, who is a billionaire (worth about $4 billion), will also have done some due diligence when he purchased the camera. There were some other items from his collection in the auction which sold for very large amounts.

 

While I empathise with Pico's feelings about this, I never get concerned about how other people spend their money unless that expenditure is manifestly against the public interest, eg funding terrorism or the like. It is entirely their own concern and none of my business. Likewise, it is entirely a matter for the new owner what they do with their 'new' camera. Some people get excited about collectors not using their cameras and keeping them in drawers or vaults or cabinets. As with the expenditure side of this, the use aspect is nobody's business but the owner's. The only possible restriction might be a clause in an insurance policy covering the item. I have no such restriction in the insurance on my collection, but as the value goes up to a very high level the insurers may have some further requirements. 

 

To the original question, if I had bought the camera, assuming I was in a position to be able to do this I would be purchasing it primarily as a collector's item and I would be unlikely to put a roll of film through the camera. I have plenty of other Leica cameras to use for putting rolls of film through, including a couple that are only 3 years younger than this one. My biggest photographic thrill last year was getting nice photos from a camera made in 1915, but that one only cost me about 50 Euro.

 

William

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......Would you run a roll of film through it?

To be pedantic on the use of the word "roll":

 

Remember that although the 0-series cameras take 135mm cine film, they do not take rolls as most of us know them, i.e. as standard-sized cassettes. These were strictly roll-your-own machines.

 

Standard cassettes (called Leica cassettes) begin with the Model A.

 

One key change to the 0-series replicas of 2000 and 2004 was increasing the height of the body to accommodate normal cassettes (the other key change was updating the Anastigmat to modern, coated-lens standards.

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