Most collectors spend years searching for the next addition to their collection. Douglas So spends just as much time uncovering the stories behind the ones he already owns.
One prototype among the hundreds of Leica cameras in his collection continues to send him back to the company’s archives in Wetzlar, Germany, searching through decades-old documents for an answer that no textbook has yet managed to provide: why Leica abandoned the project altogether.
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