Mamiya Leaf Credo 80MP Digital Back.
Let’s continue our roundup talking about the Mamiya Leaf Credo 80MP Digital Back. Compared to the other models I have talked about so far, it is the one I know least about, but I still decided to put it inside my mini-model of the most expensive cameras in the world.
And I did it not so much and not only for the price (which as always I will tell you at the end of my mini description) but because the Mamiya Leaf Credo 80MP Digital Back is indeed a luxury camera but it is also a strange technological hybrid .
Inside, in fact, we find components that have decreed the success of other “high end” products in the past, obviously.
Specifically, the Mamiya Leaf Credo 80MP Digital Back has an identifying feature which is that of mounting three “high-profile” components, one would say: the Leaf Credo 80 MP digital back, the 645 DF body of a medium-range SLR camera. format and Sekor 80 mm f / 2.8 LS D.
Wanting to make an automotive comparison, which I like very much, it is as if the Mamiya Leaf Credo 80MP Digital Back had imagined creating a car with the super-resistant body of the Range Rovers, the engine of a Pagani and the interior of a Rolls Royce. .
The result? The result is undoubtedly an extraordinary product that has no chance is presented on the market at a cost that is anything but within everyone’s reach, around 36,000 euros.
Leica 0-series no. 122
If you are on this blog it means that, each in their own way and according to their own intensity, you love photography.
If you love photography 99% you should also know the Leica brand.
Now, what would you do if, when you went to a shop, you saw an old Leica for sale and asked the price, you were answered: “two and a half million”. Of lire? No of Euros!
But let’s go in order. It was a Saturday in March 2018 when the Leica 0-series no. 122 to the shocking figure of 2.5 million euros!
This is the highest amount ever paid which, moreover, exceeds the previous record by over 400 thousand euros, of 2.1 million euros, again for the purchase of a Leica Zero series.
A certainly exorbitant figure, perhaps exaggerated (this detail that makes you understand that I was not the buyer). But, to understand it, we must consider the extraordinary nature of this zero series. It is in fact a series of cameras produced in an artisanal way by Ernst Leitz in 1923.
I wanted to specify the year because Leitz will only start commercial production of the Leica from 1925, or two years later.
Here is where pieces like the Leica 0-series don’t. 122, represent a sort of “proof” of what would have been a success of photography and technology.
