This is a brief excerpt from F-Stoppers
Some of you may have heard of David Douglas Duncan – famous for his war images, portraits and being a close friend of Pablo Picasso. His Leica M3 was sold for $2.19 million – the highest price ever paid for a commercially manufactured camera. Although the camera’s price has to do mainly with the images that came from it, it was also one of only four Leica M3Ds ever created – the “D” stands for Duncan. The cameras were ‘battle hardened’ to withstand some pretty tough situations.
The price paid for the camera is actually the second highest. The first prize goes to a 1923 prototype Leica O-Series for a cool $2.8 million. And you thought your Leica was expensive.
Duncan, 96, is considered one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. He gained notoriety as a Marine during World War II where he took photos while fighting the Japanese in the Pacific. His photos then got him hired, fulltime, by Life Magazine.
The standard price for an M3 back in 1953 would have been about $230, which I hear could have bought you a really nice car back then – but I also hear that no one had shoes, it always snowed, and the road …
By: Chris Knight
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