The MOST EXPENSIVE, RARE, & WEIRDEST Film Cameras Ever Sold

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In this video, we're taking a look at some of the most expensive, rare, and weirdest film cameras and lenses ever sold at auction. After doing a deep dive recently on some auction sites, I was fascinated by a world of film gear that I never knew existed-including the world's most expensive lens, a few space cameras, a ridiculously pricey Leica, and even a camera for a pigeon.
Also, just want to say a big thanks to Leitz Photographica Auction (www.leitz-auction.com) and Wetzlar Camera Auctions (www.wetzlarcameraauctions.com) for allowing the use of their images in this video.
Enjoy!
Intro: 00:00
The No Flair Leica: 01:13
The Mystery SLR: 02:42
A Kiev What...?: 03:57
Jim's Everyday Carry: 05:35
Sponsor Message: 07:27
The Chinese Hasselblad: 08:15
The XPAN For Pigeons: 09:27
Most Expensive Lens Ever: 10:42
Fastest Lens On Earth: 11:32
The Kubrick: 12:53
The Leica 0: 14:11
Closing Thoughts: 14:52
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@oackgourmandi6061 10 ай бұрын

I love the idea of the engineers in Zeiss Ikon being like: "So we heard of this craze of making ultrafast lenses so we built a 0.33 lens with parts we had around because we could."

@elguapo5620 11 ай бұрын

As someone who suffers from Gear Acquisition Syndrome really appreciate this video :)

@plainly_kevin 11 ай бұрын

Truer words have never been spoken

@theemperor8553 11 ай бұрын

Real

@chumleyk 11 ай бұрын

Leica secretly buys notable historic cameras from their lineage. It helps increase the value of the brand in the public's eyes.

@ronjose51 5 ай бұрын

That’s most brands and museums lol

@Darkest_Soul_187 11 ай бұрын

Think about all those Hasselblad cameras left on the moon constantly going up in value.

@messsucher 11 ай бұрын

As a Chinese I can somewhat understand the special meaning of Dongfeng and Hongqi 20. Both of these cameras were produced under the intent of Jiang Qing, who was the first lady on China. And is also loved photography; and thus wanted to create something that both shows the peak of Chinese eingineering and industries. But I guess realistically, the idea of reverse engineering doesn't mean anything. If it was mass produced, it would just be like any other leica copies from russia on ebay. Both of these are on display at Shanghai's Old Camera Museum. Been there once but back then didn't know what they were lol. Have to go back and see

@erichstocker8358 11 ай бұрын

And I think an M11 is expensive and out of range. I guess I can't even afford to look at the auction catalog for Oscar's Ur Leica!

@liamrjf 11 ай бұрын

I have the replica of the Leica 0 made by Leica in the year 2000 & compared to every other camera I’ve owned/tried it’s still my favourite. Feels like using a time machine 💥

@KyleMcDougall 11 ай бұрын

Interesting. Never knew there was a replica.

@d30gaijin 11 ай бұрын

@@KyleMcDougallActually it's not really a replica since it is Leica who made both. It's a reproduction, I believe. I have one too. A very beautiful camera of typical Leica quality.

@mrdarklight 11 ай бұрын

Cape Carnival? I didn't know we had a launch facility there. I wonder if it's near Cape Canaveral?

@KyleMcDougall 11 ай бұрын

Must just be a coincidence. They should really diversify their naming.

@alunchisholm481 11 ай бұрын

although between 1963 and 1973, it was actually called Cape Kennedy, (I couldn't believe he called it Carnival) 🙃

@terrygoyan3022 11 ай бұрын

Have you ever been to Rio for the Canaveral? It's awesome!

@brianrickey 11 ай бұрын

Great video! I love hearing about old cameras & the stories behind them. Camera history is so interesting to me!

@brianackin1580 11 ай бұрын

A palette cleanser from the usual gear review / how-to videos on other channels. Enjoyed it very much. Thanks, Kyle!

@KyleMcDougall 11 ай бұрын

Cheers!

@andrewwilkin1923 11 ай бұрын

Hi Kyle, thoroughly enjoyed this video. Thanks for all the time you spent researching and creating it.

@KyleMcDougall 11 ай бұрын

Cheers, Andrew. Glad you enjoyed.

@sterlingshootsfilm 11 ай бұрын

Loved learning about all these cameras! Big fan of this style of video, keep it up!👍

@denisbaranov1367 11 ай бұрын

12:40 Citizen, we gotta defend Kvatch!!

@Fauxbourg 11 ай бұрын

The Minolta CLE is actually a different camera. The Minolta version of the Leica CL was just called Leitz Minolta CL.

@RohkopfMS 11 ай бұрын

The CLE is a wonderful camera, I regret selling mine badly!! You should check it out!

@KyleMcDougall 11 ай бұрын

I wasn't aware. I'm curious what the difference is.

@jeraldjoyce2995 11 ай бұрын

@@KyleMcDougall CLE has aperture priority auto exposure. Im not sure what metering system it uses (likely centerweighted) as opposed to the Leica CL's 1 degree spot meter. There are probably some other minor differences such as mechanical shutter Vs. electronic shutter, but auto exposure is the big one.

@jeraldjoyce2995 11 ай бұрын

@@RohkopfMS I second this. if not the CLE, get a CL. That 40mm just butters my muffin.

@Larpy1933 3 ай бұрын

Pigeon-cam FTW! That’s the best. Thx Kyle. A great video!

@sneakingelephant 11 ай бұрын

Love all the research you put into this. Fantastic video Kyle!

@KyleMcDougall 11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@photoholic6369 11 ай бұрын

What a fantastic video ! It was so interesting to see all these rare cameras ! Thank you for the research !! Enjoyed it a lot !

@KyleMcDougall 11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@m9shamalan 7 ай бұрын

5:55 'Cape Carnivale' 😂

@d30gaijin 11 ай бұрын

Very interesting. Thank you for taking the time to assemble such interesting and historical photographic information.

@KyleMcDougall 10 ай бұрын

You’re welcome. Cheers.

@colinmel66 11 ай бұрын

Was good to bump into you this morning Kyle. Loving the content. Keep it up!

@KyleMcDougall 11 ай бұрын

Cheers, Colin! Was good to meet!

@gregwardecke 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for the fun diversion. I really enjoyed learning about something new. I hope you consider unique videos like this in the future.

@KyleMcDougall 11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed, Greg. I had fun making this. I have a few ideas for more in the future.

@gnored 5 ай бұрын

Love this vid! 14+ million? That's insane.

@noahstone3922 10 ай бұрын

Love this video! A fun different style that was interesting to learn about the backstories

@BinderDan 11 ай бұрын

Great Video, loved it!

@thatoneasiankid8734 11 ай бұрын

So what your telling me is there is a bunch of free hassleblads on the moon.

@KyleMcDougall 11 ай бұрын

All yours!

@berkcancinar 11 ай бұрын

Amazing compilation, thanks a lot!

@KyleMcDougall 11 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!

@john3Lee 11 ай бұрын

Interesting stuff - Thank you !!

@Tom-Humble 11 ай бұрын

Got 19 seconds in on my phone and realised this one was gonna deserve the big screen 🤙

@janbaborak 11 ай бұрын

Yes. Enjoyed it. Thank you, Kyle. 👌

@ricomichel 11 ай бұрын

Very entertaining episode, thank you Kyle 🙂

@KyleMcDougall 11 ай бұрын

Cheers!

@walterarroyo5220 11 ай бұрын

Such a cool video I hope you make another one of expensive or obscure gear.

@KyleMcDougall 10 ай бұрын

Have another one planned. 🙂

@somephotovideos 11 ай бұрын

I love the green background with yellow titles. Excellent font choice too!

@KyleMcDougall 10 ай бұрын

Glad you like it!

@markgarcia8253 11 ай бұрын

I bought a Leica 50mm Summicron DR. It’s old glass. It’s imperfect. Totally love the amazing rendering on my M3. I have a 35mm v4 KOB that has taken most of my shooting attention these last year I’ve had it.

@michaelsherck5099 11 ай бұрын

Great, fun video! Thanks!

@KyleMcDougall 10 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@jeromearnould9940 11 ай бұрын

nice video I was surprise by the Zunow ... Well done ...

@RobertLeeAtYT 11 ай бұрын

Wait, you're telling me there are bunches of 500's on the moon just for the taking? Dibs!!!

@earlfenwick 10 ай бұрын

You've got a great eye and I like your approach to shooting. Much better than the average walk around for sure 😃. Subbed!

@KyleMcDougall 10 ай бұрын

Appreciate that. Cheers.

@jonathan.8223 11 ай бұрын

Love the topic, unexpected and delightful

@KyleMcDougall 11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

@josephmontez879 11 ай бұрын

Loved this video

@jamesmoore9511 10 ай бұрын

You might look into the Georz 75mm Hypergon lens with fan for 8 x 10 cameras. - that's about 140 degree coverage. Mine is like 1910 vintage. A most interesting channel, thanks.

@jakubrostkowski6420 11 ай бұрын

very refreshing material!

@oc2phish07 10 ай бұрын

Hmmmmm. Instant return Meeeer? Cape Carnival? A very interesting video with loads of cameras I had not seen before. Also an interesting accent. LOL. You could have added one more lens and included the 6mm f2.8 Nikon ultra fisheye lens that was also used by Stanley Kubrick in 2001. It was used as the eye in the centre of the HAL 9000 computer.

@KyleMcDougall 10 ай бұрын

Ah yes, I came across the Nikon fisheye. Definitely a unique one. I'll save that for part two.

@davidhilhorst 11 ай бұрын

I liked the new style of video! :)

@KyleMcDougall 11 ай бұрын

Glad to hear that, David.

@jamesbarnes3063 11 ай бұрын

Interesting, thanks

@Quantachrome 11 ай бұрын

David Chan showed me the Dong Feng and told the history about it, ending with a classic "not for sale".

@VirtualGuth 2 ай бұрын

I’m pretty sure that all variations of the Leitz Minolta CL / Leica CL (35mm film camera) were manufactured by Minolta in Japan. The later Minolta CLE was different beast that Minolta produced on its own offering aperture priority automatic mode using through-the-lens, off of the film metering.

@angloitalo 11 ай бұрын

The Minolta CLE was manufactered by Minolta. Its inner workings were from the Minolta XG slr.

@5kyw4lk3r 10 ай бұрын

Yeah, it‘s an entirely different (much better) camera than the Leica CL.

@joshuacotter4686 11 ай бұрын

Love the new video super interesting! I would kill to hold that nasalblad :)

@KyleMcDougall 11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed.

@jeremyrowlettmedia 11 ай бұрын

That pigeon one has me shook! WOW! That is incredible. My only question is how would they recover the camera from the pigeon afterwards?

@jasosik 11 ай бұрын

pigeon lands :)

@jakeaaron 11 ай бұрын

You wait for them to come home.

@goatman9933 11 ай бұрын

Pigeons at that time (most likely passenger pigeons, which I believe are now extinct) were trained to fly to a specific area or distance, then return to wherever they started

@KyleMcDougall 11 ай бұрын

Yep, this. Also didn't know much about this until researching this video. Really interesting stuff.

@Keckegenkai 10 ай бұрын

@@goatman9933 There are still pigeon races; you train them to fly from point A to B still exist.

@RostykMakushak 11 ай бұрын

♥️ 5:00 Proud that this camera is named after the Capital of Brave People 🇺🇦✌️

@GuagoFruit 11 ай бұрын

4:48 I feel like the auction website would have a vested interest in overstating the rareness of their items, even if it's nonfactual to some extent.

@csisbw 11 ай бұрын

You're wrong, when you said Kiev - I thought of chicken kiev's and now I'm hungry Great video mate!

@passenger874 11 ай бұрын

The Minolta CLE is my dream camera

@DaveVaughan2004 11 ай бұрын

Those are some insane numbers :O

@KyleMcDougall 11 ай бұрын

Big time!

@tbostrowski6136 10 ай бұрын

Disappointed that my Praktica SLR from Consumers Distributing didn’t make the list. I have a 500CM it didn’t go to the moon but I do have Hasselblad 10 Years On The Moon 1969-1973 promo pamphlet printed in Sweden (of course) 1978. I image that it isn’t especially valuable either. 😂

@punkrachmaninoff 11 ай бұрын

There are a few Pentax lenses that are worthy of this list... Very low production runs on a few Konica fast prime lenses also.

@PhilKnall 11 ай бұрын

Oh man, that silver CL prototype... 🤤

@carbonejack 11 ай бұрын

Cool video.

@SuperTantePeter 11 ай бұрын

this video was quite fun

@KyleMcDougall 11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

@user-mk7pp2pz6p 11 ай бұрын

would you use any lens filter when film photography? Maybe Kase or Nisi?

@trulsdirio 11 ай бұрын

Your second pronunciation of Quatsch was pretty much spot on!

@albarca5084 11 ай бұрын

Those hasselblad bodies left on the mmon are free to pick. Just sayin

@johnirby493 10 ай бұрын

A Leica CL is not a Minolta CLE. Minolta made the CLE on it's own, and it was more advanced than the CL.

@timtrace613 4 ай бұрын

So you're telling me there are some cameras up for grabs on the moon?!

@guillaumeraux 9 ай бұрын

Slight correction: the moon landing was in 1969, not 79. Probably just a mistake, but some young viewers might have registered the wrong decade there! Great video Kyle! Thank you, that was instructive and fun!

@evo271 11 ай бұрын

I didn't think Leica's could be that expensive....as chinese copies. Damn!

@ougleman 10 ай бұрын

I love Cape Carnival

@chrisbloom382 10 ай бұрын

I wonder if early digital cameras will one day fetch such prices.

@DennisTrovato 11 ай бұрын

So... there's just a whole bunch of Hasselblads sitting on the moon?

@KyleMcDougall 11 ай бұрын

Apparently.

@sjmheron 11 ай бұрын

Launched from Cape... WHAT? 😂

@KyleMcDougall 10 ай бұрын

🙃

@BluemazeWesley 4 ай бұрын

That pigeon span is the original drone camera.

@terrygoyan3022 11 ай бұрын

Have you ever been to Rio for the Canaveral?

@jmcgonnell 10 ай бұрын

all i heard was 'free hasselblads on the moon'.

@KyleMcDougall 10 ай бұрын

Waiting for ya!

@Amphibax 11 ай бұрын

Nailing focus at f0.33 must be a huge pain

@KyleMcDougall 11 ай бұрын

Just a little difficult I'm sure.

@diveaddict6885 11 ай бұрын

Definitely 500 space edition coolest camera

@joanmichel 11 ай бұрын

Very interesting facts on random cameras I would probably never look for at first 😂 thanks for sharing the info and making the video. Crazy prices too 😮

@sputumtube 11 ай бұрын

5.56 - Cape Carnival. Hahaha!!!

@dummatube 9 ай бұрын

"Cape Carnivarl" 🤣🤣🤣

@ThePwig 10 ай бұрын

What Cape did they take off from again?

@dadautube 6 ай бұрын

for decades i was curious to see photos taken with that 0.95 Canon lens ... saw some online a few years ago AT LAST! the image quality of that lens in one word: RUBBISH! in all caps ...

@mich8261 5 ай бұрын

Fun!

@olszmen 10 ай бұрын

Some free hasselblads available on the moon...

@KyleMcDougall 10 ай бұрын

Go get ‘em!

@diveaddict6885 11 ай бұрын

What about the rare Nikon fish eye lens?

@KylerSteele 11 ай бұрын

Some rich guy is gonna watch this and buy everything in this video

@eltinjones4542 11 ай бұрын

And I've only ever purchased cameras under €1000 😂📷👍

@taurig 11 ай бұрын

Киев actually not a manufacturer of the camera, it’s just name. It was made in Kyiv (Київ) by Arsenal Factory (it’s a large, military mostly, factory) uk.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Арсенал_(завод)

@eric.ross.art1 6 ай бұрын

I say let's go to the moon and rescue some cameras. ^_^

@Casualfulltime 11 ай бұрын

Some people have to much money 🤣 Jeeeesh

@KyleMcDougall 11 ай бұрын

I felt guilty buying a $100 lens last week.

@bernardkealey6449 11 ай бұрын

OMG The Nasablad went for ^only^ €660k??? Given what’s happened to the high end objet market since 2014 that seems like spare change…. I’d definitely prefer that to the Barnak Leica; way less chance of breaking it….

@bertcremers3134 11 ай бұрын

Hi Kyle, Guess what, I happen to have a camera that is so rare, nobody even knows it exsists ! I bought it on a camera fair together wit 2 lenses and the magazine, I later realized there was someting odd about this item because I own several camera's of this type... It took a while before it apeared to me what was different. A few years ago I contacted a German photography magazine called "Photo Klassik", they were so kind to put a little artikel in it acompanied with a few foto's I took from it. There were a few reactions from readers who replied and said the camera was not rare at all but they got it wrong, they were refering to another type, so not mine.... I send the camera in for a CLA to the only Dutch Rolleiflex repair man and he confirmed that this was a ORIGINAL RARE BLACK ROLLEIFLEX SL66 even he has never seen ! From the Rolleiflex SL66 there are, I believe 26.000 build but only 10 pieces are completly build in BLACK, invluding the magazine ! The German autor Claus Prochnow who was working at the Rollei plant whrote several books about Rollei, in one of these there is proof of the existance of my Blackie, in the book Rollei Report-2 on page 26-547 in the top box, upper right hand corner there it is listed as; " Schwarze Kamera 10 Stuck 1973 Nicht gelisted Sonderausfürung" which means, Black camera 10 pieces, not listed, special edition 1973 ! There is a Rolleiflex website and the guy who runs it is Dutch but he lives in Australia, I contacted him but even he with his elaborate website has never heard of it... Now I hope to get YOU a real scoop. BTW, it is for sale 😊

@mickjoebills 7 ай бұрын

Where does one go to sell rare lenses? I have a 2000mm Pentax and a 180mm f1.3 Zoom.

@diveaddict6885 11 ай бұрын

Canon made an ef mount 11,000mm lens

@NeonShores 8 ай бұрын

Clearly Kubrick already knew how to use the Zeiss lenses since he filmed the staged moon landing......🤔😉

@pflipflops6295 10 ай бұрын

So you´re telling all I need to do to get a Hasselblad is go to the moon?

@incorporeal3793 10 ай бұрын

I hope it still worked for 14,400,000... 😂 Like, seriously 😮

@Axisofoversteer 8 ай бұрын

Cape Carneval? 😂

@SlavaVeres 11 ай бұрын

😂 Whoever bought that Leica “105” copy has serious GAS problem (gear acquisition syndrome) 😅

@KyleMcDougall 11 ай бұрын

Maximum GAS

@zakaroonetwork777 3 ай бұрын

The Ziess 40mm 1:0.33 Would actually be Practical for Underwater Diving Photography. Help Save the Whales, If the Whales die out the Sharks will take over.