How to read a price here
cameraworth doesn’t value your camera. It shows what cameras and lenses like it actually sold for, and how much those sales tell you. Look one up, then read the page with the five points below.
Search by name or maker’s number — “Leica M3”, “Rolleiflex 2.8F”, “10.0637”.
1. The typical price is the middle sale
The big figure is the median: half the recorded sales were for more, half for less. It comes only from real sales — auction results with the buyer’s premium taken out, and eBay items as sold. Never asking prices.
Under it, the middle half is the range the central half of sales fell in. If yours is ordinary, expect it near the middle; the dots on the page show every sale, so you can see how wide the range really is.
2. The grade says how much to trust it
Every price has one plain word beside it. A Solid price rests on thirty or more sales; an Indicative one on three to nine, and reads “about £…”. With one or two sales there is no figure at all — just the sales.
Small tags such as wide spread, one source or old mean: read the page before quoting the number. What each tag means →
3. Versions can matter more than anything
A black paint Leica and a chrome one share a name but not a price. Where a camera came in versions, the page lists the price of each, and a bar shows how many sales we could match to a version. If the reason sentence names a version or a period, that is usually the answer to “why is the range so wide?”.
4. Outfits, lots and display pieces are set apart
A body sold with several lenses, a box of mixed cameras, a part, or a shop dummy is not one camera, so none of them are in the typical price. They are listed apart, with their own count and range, so nothing is hidden.
5. Condition isn’t adjusted for
A mint, boxed example and a worn one both count as a sale. We don’t grade condition, so a camera in unusually good or poor order will sell above or below the middle. Read the titles of the sales on the page: they often say what made one dearer.
Auction results are also not shop prices. A dealer’s price is usually higher, because it carries a warranty and a return.
Checking a figure yourself
Every sale links to its auction lot or listing, the page has a full sales ledger, and each figure carries the method version it was made with. If a sale looks wrong, the Report a wrong sale form at the foot of each product page goes straight to us.