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Moller Cambinox

The Moller Cambinox is a combined binocular and camera, pairing a pair of viewing optics with a built-in subminiature camera in a single housing. It is a niche piece of mid-twentieth-century German optical engineering rather than a mainstream stills camera, and is encountered primarily through specialist auctions.

At UK auction the Cambinox is uncommon, and recorded hammer prices range from £600 to £1,500, with the two tracked sales averaging around £1,050 — wholesale saleroom levels rather than retail asking prices. Today the price a Cambinox sells for is driven heavily by completeness and cosmetic condition, with cased, working examples sitting at the upper end of that range and tired or incomplete bodies worth considerably less.

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Sales History

Prices shown are UK auction hammer results — the wholesale level achieved in the saleroom. Neither buyer’s nor seller’s commission is included. Dealer and retail asking prices are typically higher.

Date Price Source
Jun 2021 EUR 1,500 Leitz Auction
Nov 2016 EUR 600 Leitz Auction
Jun 2015 EUR 650 Leitz Auction
Nov 2014 EUR 500 Leitz Auction
May 2013 EUR 300 Leitz Auction
May 2009 EUR 600 Leitz Auction
Nov 2008 EUR 900 Leitz Auction
Jun 2008 EUR 800 Leitz Auction
Sep 2004 £454 Christie's