This won't look terribly impressive in your collector case...until you mention how much you paid for it.
(Notice the line "Former property of Leitz Factory Museum"...recently, I wonder?)
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I want it! It will go well with my Dymaxion!
http://tinyurl.com/5mzntj
Posted by: Paul De Zan | Saturday, 14 June 2008 at 10:58 AM
Paul,
Gawd. That thing looks like a total deathtrap.
Mike J.
Posted by: Mike J. | Saturday, 14 June 2008 at 11:02 AM
Personally I wouldn't pay a dime over $199,000 for it. I think I'll now pay $99 for the 135mm 3.5 screwmount I've been eyeing for my Canon 7 RF. I was on the fence. ;0
Posted by: EmmJay | Saturday, 14 June 2008 at 11:12 AM
So, is it really an M5 prototype?
Posted by: Stephen S. | Saturday, 14 June 2008 at 11:14 AM
well, lens included!
Posted by: Nimnar | Saturday, 14 June 2008 at 11:14 AM
Oh, man oh man! I think I hit the wrong button on that page. I cannot bear to look. Was it a decimal point or a comma in the middle of all those numbers?
Posted by: fjf | Saturday, 14 June 2008 at 11:42 AM
It has a selenium meter which was out of date in that era???
Posted by: Jay | Saturday, 14 June 2008 at 12:00 PM
Photo Arsenal is always good for a laugh or ten. Why get the prototype when you can have a wood mock up for less than 1/20 the price?
http://tinyurl.com/64o3no
Posted by: Chad Thompson | Saturday, 14 June 2008 at 12:03 PM
Just look at almost any of Photo Arsenal's eBay listings for a hearty laugh.
Posted by: Teddy | Saturday, 14 June 2008 at 12:40 PM
But how good would it be in Iraq?
Posted by: Nigel Robinson | Saturday, 14 June 2008 at 01:00 PM
How many mp? At that price, I hope it at least comes with a battery charger.
Posted by: John Roberts | Saturday, 14 June 2008 at 01:30 PM
And they have already a record of 2549 transactions. Wow.
Posted by: Thiago Silva | Saturday, 14 June 2008 at 01:41 PM
>Paul,
>Gawd. That thing looks like a total deathtrap.
In 1933, it looked like the future!
I saw Fuller speak once, very near the end of his life. I was a mere puppy and couldn't follow the circles he talked in, but was impressed with the sheer number of ideas the man had come up with over time. To my dad who went with me and was born in the same year as Fuller, he was simply the ultimate egghead.
Which may explain the shape of the Dymaxion!
Posted by: Paul De Zan | Saturday, 14 June 2008 at 01:54 PM
>Photo Arsenal is always good for a laugh or ten. Why get the prototype when you can have a wood mock up for less than 1/20 the price?
Apparently the M5 was originally meant to be a screw mount.
Posted by: Devon | Saturday, 14 June 2008 at 02:03 PM
Well of course..."No payments or interest 'till 2009." That makes it a deal.
Posted by: Charles Maclauchlan | Saturday, 14 June 2008 at 02:08 PM
We may look at the price of the Leica and wonder at it is cost, but remember that from the stand point of the uber rich (the only buyer for such a thing), they may make that much money in only a hours of oil pumping or stock trading. To people such as the sultan of Brunei, or the sheiks of Saudi Arabia (to name only two possible examples), it is not quite "pocket change," but not a large expense.
Posted by: Alexander Vesey | Saturday, 14 June 2008 at 02:30 PM
How does it compare to a Zeiss Ikon (current model)...as a usable picture taking tool?
Perhaps I can justify the Zeiss, by comparing the price to the Leica?
Mike.
Posted by: Mike | Saturday, 14 June 2008 at 05:07 PM
What?? No free shipping?? That’s it, I retract my bid . . .
Posted by: Dennis | Saturday, 14 June 2008 at 05:12 PM
You should see how much they want for the one with the snakeskin covering.
Posted by: Chuck Albertson | Saturday, 14 June 2008 at 07:53 PM
Compare an contrast (Voigtlander Vitomatic II) http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/index-frameset.html?VoigtlanderVitomatic.html~mainFrame
The Voigtlander seems to solve the same problem as the M5. Currently the camera as shown, with the Tessar style lens goes for $47 on ebay. The ones with the f2 Ultron lens somewhat more.
And I think the camera has style!
Posted by: Tom V | Saturday, 14 June 2008 at 11:24 PM
At first glance I thought it was one of those German Instamatics from the mid 70's. I'm not quite convinced that it isn't.
Oh my. Instamatic isn't in my spell checker. How quickly we forget.
Posted by: Roger Suppona | Sunday, 15 June 2008 at 12:58 AM
I think I know of a Nigerian Finance Minister who might be interested, he can only pay by Western Union however.
Posted by: kfarren | Sunday, 15 June 2008 at 01:33 AM
Coincidentally there was a recent article on Fuller (Dymaxion Man) in the New Yorker:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/09/080609fa_fact_kolbert
Posted by: SL | Sunday, 15 June 2008 at 02:30 AM
Shipping cost from hong kong are an additional (40.- euros). the same is true for VAT, but there should be no duty payable if the buyer resides in the EU.
I would collect it and bring it to any address within the EU for half the VAT.
Posted by: Christer Almqvist | Sunday, 15 June 2008 at 07:06 AM
Well if it does RAW it is definitely worth it.
Posted by: Peter in Bangkok | Sunday, 15 June 2008 at 08:55 PM
and if you live in Germany you can get it for just 8 euros postage.....!
Posted by: robert | Sunday, 15 June 2008 at 09:35 PM
I think you have to give them points for trying.
Posted by: K L | Tuesday, 17 June 2008 at 08:54 AM