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Camera and Photographic Equipment

We hold regular auctions of cameras, photographs and scientific instruments each year. These typically include cameras and lenses by Hasselblad, Leica, Rollei, Zeiss, Nikon, Canon, Pentax, mahogany and brass plate cameras, 19th century images, microscopes, telescopes, navigational and surveying instruments.

Experience and knowledge allows us to give you expert and comprehensive advice when selling. Prior to the auction a professional, colour online catalogue is produced and publicised worldwide to ensure that your items reach the excellent prices they deserve.

Our consultants are available and eager to offer friendly and honest advice to any buyers with questions regarding items for sale, prior, during or post auction.

Any enquiries regarding buying or selling and for more information please contact our specialists Mike Spencer or Hugo Marsh on 01635 580595 or via our contact us page.

 

Auction highlights

  • Photographica & Cameras Auction
  • 13th February 2024

Lot 80

A Leica R7 SLR Camera

Price realised

£800 plus BP

Lot 375

A M.P.P. Mk VII 5X4 Camera

Price realised

£260 plus BP

Lot 436

A Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5 L Lens

Price realised

£420 plus BP

Auction highlights

  • Photographica & Cameras Auction
  • 19th December 2023

Lot 1

A Mamiya 7 II Medium Format Rangefinder Camera

Price realised

£2,100 plus BP

Lot 264

A Minolta TC-1 Compact Camera

Price realised

£440 plus BP

Lot 319

A Nikon FM2 SLR Camera

Price realised

£180 plus BP

Auction highlights

  • Photographica & Cameras Auction
  • 10th October 2023

Lot 266

A Canon VI-T Rangefinder Camera

Price realised

£1,700 plus BP

Lot 41

The Noakes 'Quad' Magic Lantern

Price realised

£30,000 plus BP

Lot 648

A Bolex H16 EBM Electric 16mm Cine Camera

Price realised

£2,000 plus BP

Auction highlights

  • Photographica & Cameras Auction
  • 15th August 2023

Lot 25

A Leica SOOBK Lens Hood

Price realised

£550 plus BP

Lot 553

Zeiss Axio Lab A1 with Axio-Cam Erc 5s head

Price realised

£700 plus BP

Lot 218

A Leica R9 Camera Body

Price realised

£380 plus BP

Auction highlights

  • Photographica & Cameras Auction
  • 13th June 2023

Lot 541

A Rollei 35 Gold Camera

Price realised

£420 plus BP

Lot 118

A Leitz Canada 19mm f/2.8 Elmarit-R Lens

Price realised

£950 plus BP

Lot 358

A Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-RX100M3 Digital Camera

Price realised

£300 plus BP

Auction highlights

  • Photographica & Cameras Auction
  • 18th April 2023

Lot 23

A 19th Century lacquered brass Ross No. 4 Wenham Binocular Petrological Microscope Stand

Price realised

£2,200 plus BP

Lot 152

A Sony a7 RIV Digital Camera

Price realised

£1,200 plus BP

Lot 511

A Leitz Wetzlar Leica M6 Camera

Price realised

£2,000 plus BP

Auction highlights

  • Photographica & Cameras Auction
  • 21st February 2023

Lot 168

A Canon EF 400mm f/5.6 L Ultrasonic Lens

Price realised

£280 plus BP

Lot 101

A 16mm Feature Film of Monty Python's "Life of Brian"

Price realised

£240 plus BP

Lot 298

A Tray of Minolta Compact Cameras

Price realised

£260 plus BP

Auction highlights

  • Photographica & Camera Auction
  • 20th December 2022

Lot 113

Two Pairs of Binoculars, a pair of Barr & Stroud 7x CF2.5, marked with military broad arrow

Price realised

£600 plus BP

Lot 349

A Group of Olympus mju Zoom Compact Cameras

Price realised

£320 plus BP

Lot 236

A Polaroid 600 SE Camera, serial no MAD 93336C

Price realised

£290 plus BP

Auction highlights

  • Photographica & Camera Auction
  • 25th October 2022

Lot 224

A Hasselblad XPan Camera with Hasselblad 45mm f.4 lens

Price realised

£4800 plus BP

Lot 308

A Dallmeyer Super Six Anastigmat 2" f/1.9 Lens, in L39 mount

Price realised

£4200 plus BP

Lot 95

A Wide Angle Rolleiflex TLR Camera with cased Rollei W hood

Price realised

£2900 plus BP

Auction highlights

  • Photographica & Camera
  • 23rd August 2022

Lot 334

A Black Leitz Wetzlar Leica M6 Rangefinder Camera

Price realised

£2400 plus BP

Lot 299

A Mamiya 6MF Rangefinder Camera

Price realised

£1300 plus BP

Lot 314

A Leitz Wetzlar Leica M2 Rangefinder Camera

Price realised

£1100 plus BP

Auction highlights

  • Photographica & Cameras
  • 28th June 2022

Lot 151

A Canon EF 500mm f/4.5 L Ultrasonic Lens

Price realised

£290 plus BP

Lot 168

A Noblex PRO 06/150F Panoramic Camera

Price realised

£420 plus BP

Lot 614

An Ernemann Ermanox Reflex SLR Plate Camera

Price realised

£360 plus BP

Auction highlights

  • Photographica & Cameras
  • 26th April 2022

Lot 273

A Compass Compact Rangefinder Camera

Price realised

£2,000 plus BP

Lot 604

A Black Leitz Wetzlar Leica M6 Rangefinder Camera

Price realised

£2,400 plus BP

Lot 631

A Leitz Canada Summicron 35mm f/2 Lens

Price realised

£2,300 plus BP

Auction highlights

  • Photographica & Cameras - Two Day Auction
  • 15th February 2022

Lot 107

Canon EOS-1D Mark IV DSLR Camera Body

Price realised

£440 plus BP

Lot 324

A Bolex H16 Cine Camera

Price realised

£360 plus BP

Lot 576

Mamiya M645 1000S SLR Camera Outfit

Price realised

£300 Plus BP

Auction highlights

  • Photographica
  • 19th October 2021

Lot 406

A Cooke Deep Field Panchro 100mm f/2.5 Lens, black, T2.8

Price realised

£1,600 plus BP

Lot 23

19th Century Fossilised Wood Section Microscope Slides

Price realised

£11,000 plus BP

Lot 594

A Leica M6 TTL 0.58 Camera, black, serial no 2683333, 2000,

Price realised

£3,000 plus BP

Auction highlights

  • Photographica
  • 20th July 2021

Lot 156

A Nettel Deck-Rullo Nettel Strut Folding Plate Camera

Price realised

£1,200 plus BP

Lot 271

A Hasselblad 2000FC/M Camera, chrome, serial no RY 1514954

Price realised

£1,100 plus BP

Lot 351

A Leitz Wetzlar Leica M4 Camera, chrome, 1970, serial no 1250 866

Price realised

£1,700 plus BP

Auction highlights

  • Photographica
  • 15th June 2021

Lot 325

Carl Zeiss Jena Exakta Mount Lenses, a Flektogon 25mm f/4 lens, serial no 6406685

Price realised

£280 plus BP

Lot 335

A Graflex Pacemaker Crown Graphic Press Camera Outfit, 5 x 4in format

Price realised

£270 plus BP

Lot 336

Large Format Body and Lenses, comprising a Schneider-Kreuznach Symmar

Price realised

£260 plus BP

Auction highlights

  • Photographica
  • 23rd March 2021

Lot 253

Field Glasses a pair of Bek KF Dienstglas

Price realised

£240

Lot 340

Nikon DSLR Bodies

Price realised

£200

Lot 38

Canon EF Lenses

Price realised

£230

Auction highlights

  • Photographica & Camera
  • 26th January 2021

Lot 228

A Graflex Crown Graphic Camera, serial no 714414

Price realised

£300

Lot 104

Nikon and Canon DSLR Bodies

Price realised

£440

Lot 194

A Canon EF 300mm f/2.8 L Ultrasonic Lens

Price realised

£750

Auction highlights

  • Photographica & Camera
  • 20th October 2020

Lot 163

A mid-19th Century lacquered brass Smith & Beck 'First-Class No. 2

Price realised

£1,400

Lot 7

A Technicolor Technirama 35mm Motion Picture Camera

Price realised

£14,000

Lot 115

A fine late 19th Century Cloth Folio Travel Album of Fijian Interest

Price realised

£2,800

Auction highlights

  • Photographica Including Cameras,Photographs and Scientific Instruments
  • 16th June 2020

Lot 420

A Primarette Twin Lens Folding Camera, circa 1931-37, a taking camera topped by a second viewing or finder camera, separate lens and bellows for each half, top lens tilts down for automatic parallax correction, body G, some wear to leather, bellows G, with Meyer Görlitz 7.5cm f2.9 lens, serial no 612503, in F Deckel shutter, shutter sluggish on slow speeds, elements G, some haze, with both lens caps, spools and leather strap

Price realised

£550

Lot 484

A Black Leitz Wetzlar Leica M2 Body, serial no. 949 075, rare black example from 1958 (serial no. allocation 948 601 to 949 100), lever rewind release, no self-timer, body F, missing cap next to frame counter index, brassing to edges of top plate, baseplate and film advance, some repainting to top plate, signs of corrosion underneath, bottom plate worn and unrestored, shutter working (capping at 1/500, not opening at 1/1000s), with maker's body cap

Price realised

£14,000

Lot 485

A Rare Early Leitz Wetzlar Leica M3 Double Stroke Camera, chrome, serial no. 700 365, 1954, a low serial number example (1954 allocation 700 000 to 710 000), with corner on top plate, early triangular strap lugs, body G, scuffing to top and baseplates, shutter and self-timer working, with a Leitz Summicron 5cm f/2 collapsible lens, no. 920 887, barrel G, elements F, fog to front glass, with maker's cap

Price realised

£14,000

Auction highlights

  • Fine Photographica
  • 27th April 2021

286

An Ilford Witness Rangefinder Camera

Price realised

£8,000 plus BP

338

A Dallmeyer Dallac 8.5cm f/2 lens

Price realised

£3,400 plus BP

390

A Leica MP 0.58 Camera Body

Price realised

£2,500 plus BP

Auction highlights

  • Photographica Including Cameras, Photographs & Scientific Instruments
  • 16th June 2020

Lot 19

An early 20th Century folding-strut 2½in x 3½in Newman & Guardia 'Sibyl' Camera, with milled aluminium front standard, Taylor, Taylor & Hobson f/6.5 Cooke lens, in swinging sector shutter, film pack back, wooden focusing screen with glass reversed and pencil inscription 'Autochrome', metal focusing screen and six metal dark slides, in leather case, slides af, and wooden dark slide, with ink inscription for Autochrome, in maker's case, circa 1910, F

Price realised

£850

184

A fine mid-19th Century Andrew Ross lacquered brass Large No. 1 Compound Binocular Bar-Limb Polarising Microscope, serial no. 1958, with binocular and monocular body-tubes and Wenham prism, eyepiece -'A' pair, 'B' pair, 'C Kellner's Orthoscopic' pair, D and E, objectives - ¼in with correction collar, ½in with correction collar, 1½in and 3in, in cans, Lieberkuhn, periphery-geared mechanical stage, stage bull's-eye condenser

Price realised

£5,000

224

A Reid III Rangefinder Camera, serial no. P1313, shutter working, body G, spotting to top plate and scuffing to rear of bottom plate, with a Taylor-Hobson Anastigmat 2in f/2 lens, no. 328777, F, condensation patches on rear element, maker's lens cap and Reid & Sigrist presentation box

Price realised

£1,800

Auction highlights

  • Photographica & Camera
  • 20th October 2020

Lot 588

A Leitz Wetzlar Summicron 50mm f/2 Lens.

Price realised

£600

Lot 548

A Reid III Rangefinder Camera

Price realised

£1,200

Lot 401

A Nikon Noct-Nikkor 58mm f/1.2 AI Lens,

Price realised

£1,700

Auction highlights

  • Photographica
  • 11th May 2020
Lot 187

Lot 187

A Canon EOS 6D Mark 1 DSLR Camera

Price realised

£440

Lot 221

Lot 221

A Leitz Focomat V35 Autofocus Colour Enlarger

Price realised

£380

Lot 349

Lot 349

An R.A.F Torpedo Training Camera

Price realised

£380

Auction highlights

  • Photographica
  • 23rd July 2019

Lot 281

A Ross Xpres 1½in F/1.9 Lens, serial no. 187883, Newman Sinclair mount, 1940s

Price realised

£5,200

Lot 282

A Ross Xpres 2in f/1.9 Lens, serial no. 129659, Newman Sinclair mount, 1930s

Price realised

£6,000

Lot 294

A Dallmeyer Septac Anastigmat 2in f/1.5 Lens, serial no. 568807

Price realised

£10,000

Auction highlights

  • Photographica
  • 23rd July 2019

Lot 292

A Dallmeyer Septac Anastigmat 2in f/1.5 Lens, serial no. 613723, black, barrel VG, elements F-G, edge fungus, black speck, cleaning mark, with maker's box and matching serial number

Price realised

£13,000

Lot 146

This lot is an extremely rare 1930s Leitz accessory, the Leica Gun by E. Leitz Inc. of New York, developed the Leica Gun at the suggestion of Attilio Gatti, a celebrated Italian-born, explorer, author and film maker who led thirteen African safaris between the 1920s and 1940s. Gatti urgently needed a hand-held support for the long telephoto lenses he fitted to his Leica camera for rapid sequence wildlife photography

Price realised

£138,000

Lot 293

A Dallmeyer Septac Anastigmat 2in f/1.5 Lens, serial no. 601587

Price realised

£12,000

Auction highlights

  • Cameras and Photographic Equipment

Auction highlights

  • Photographica & Camera
  • 8th September 2020

Lot 27

A Tray of M42 Mount Prime Lenses

Price realised

£270

Lot 160

Four Pentax SLR Cameras,

Price realised

£230

Lot 51

A Tray of Canon EF Lenses

Price realised

£300

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