Leitz Public sale version Leica M6 restricted to solely 20 models worldwide

There are some cameras on the market which can be purely for adornment. They exist for the status of possession, by no means more likely to create even a single picture. That is such a digicam. It’s a particular Leitz Public sale version of the Leica M6 (buy here) to have a good time the twentieth anniversary of the Leitz Photographica Public sale.

You’re solely in a position to purchase them in individual from one very specific Leica shop in Vienna, Austria. It comes with the Noctilux-M 50 f/1.2 ASPH lens (buy here), with each objects sporting a shiny black end. And if you’d like one, it’ll value you €25,980.

In addition to the digicam and lens, you’ve obtained a lens cap, physique cap and lens hood, together with a customized strap made out of clean black leather-based. The whole combo, able to go, proper out of the field – though they by no means will – simply as quickly as you fork over the money.

Now, we all know Leica are costly, significantly with regards to their restricted version cameras. However simply how costly is that this one?

The usual Leica M6 and Noctilux-M 50mm f/1.2 ASPH lens value a grand whole of $13,190, in response to B&H. In line with Google’s present trade charges, €25,980 equates to round $28,300.

That’s a rise in value over the usual digicam and lens of $15,110. You would get a pair of normal M6 & lens kits for the price of this one. And also you’d nonetheless have change left over to cowl your flights and lodging to Vienna, Austria!

To its credit score, the Leitz brand on the entrance of the restricted version digicam is made out of stable gold. However is it actually $15,110 value of gold?

Given a number of the costs that uncommon Leica cameras have been fetching over the previous few years, although, I’m not shocked. With solely 20 models worldwide, overly wealthy completionists are going to be attempting to gather this one for years to return, and the worth ought to solely ever improve.

And chances are high, none of those cameras will ever shoot a single picture.