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 Win a limited edition Leica O model replica kit - Leica O model competition

Friday 7th December 2007

Leica O model competition

We've got one of only 1,000 Oskar Barnack 125-year celebration kits to give away. To mark the 125-year anniversary of Leica inventor Oskar Barnack, Leica Camera AG put together a special limited-edition kit featuring a replica of the original Leica, the model O, and a print from a run of 100 of one of the test pictures Oskar Barnack took with his first 35mm cameras.

The model O is a replica of the Prototype 2 camera, of which only 20 were made in 1923. The cameras were developed as a second stage after the first concept, the Ur Leica, to test the market for such a product, and preceded the production-line Leica 1 cameras that launched the 35mm film format for still photography.

At a recent sale in Austria, one of the original 20 series-O cameras achieved the highest sum ever for a 35mm camera, reaching an auction price of E336,000 (about £240,000). The archival prints are made from the original negatives and have been treated to resist environmental damage and fading. Leica has selected ten different negatives and made only 100 prints of each - the print featured in the kit we are giving away is 'Flood, Langgasse' (see COMPETITION RULES for image).

Along with the camera, the numbered and certified print and the presentation box is a DVD featuring previously unpublished films made by Oskar Barnack with his 35mm movie cameras around Wetzlar and the surrounding area.

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