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Tamarkin Camera and Auctions is moving to a new location

By LR admin | Published: May 11, 2022

Our sponsor Tamarkin Camera and Auctions is moving to a new location in Chigaco:

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Six different Swedish military/army Leica IIIf/IIIg cameras coming to an auction next week

By LR admin | Published: April 30, 2022

A small auction house in Southern Sweden has listed six different Swedish military Leica cameras for their upcoming auction on May 7th at 8:30 CEST. Five of the cameras are coming with a black Elmar 3.5/5cm lens. One of the Leicas IIIf cameras (No.822901) is the first camera in the batch 822901–823000 for the Swedish […]

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Here are the highlights from the upcoming 40th Leitz Photographica Auction (catalog now available)

By LR admin | Published: April 15, 2022

The catalog for the upcoming 40th Leitz Photographica Auction is now available and can be found here (the auction will be held on 11 June at Leitz Park in Wetzlar):  In addition to Oskar Barnack’s 0-Series Leica camera that is expected to fetch over $3M, here are some of the other highlights from the […]

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Oskar Barnack’s 0-Series Leica camera expected to fetch over $3M at the next Leitz Photographica Auction

By LR admin | Published: March 29, 2022

The 20th anniversary of the Leitz Photographica Auction will be special (will be held on 11 June at the Leitz Park in Wetzlar): it will offer for auction the historically unique Leica 0-Series camera with a serial number 105. This was the personal camera of Oskar Barnack, the inventor of 35 mm photography. Heree are […]

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The results from the Leitz and Tamarkin photographica auctions are out

By LR admin | Published: November 24, 2021

The results of the 39th Leitz Photographica Auction are out: The results for the last Tamarkin Photographica Auction are also now available.

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Leitz Photographica Auction #39 is coming this weekend

By LR admin | Published: November 17, 2021

The 39th Leitz Photographica Auction will take place this weekend in Vienna (November 20, 2021, at 11 am CET): Online catalog Bidding info Here are some of the Leica highlights:

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The next Tamarkin Rare Camera Auction will take place this weekend (Saturday, November 13, 2021)

By LR admin | Published: November 9, 2021

The next Tamarkin Rare Camera Auction will take place this weekend (Saturday, November 13, 2021) in Chicago. Here are some of the Leica highlights: The silver Leica Noctilux-M 50mm f/1.2 ASPH lens pictured above was donated by Jeff Garlin to benefit the Chicago Food Depository. Additional links for the upcoming Tamarkin Rare Camera Auction: Download […]

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Results from the third Wetzlar Camera Auction

By LR admin | Published: October 10, 2021

Here are the top results from the third Wetzlar Camera Auction that took place last night in Wetzlar:

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