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Forget the $2.8 million Leica, the 1110 series camera from Spectral Instruments is the one that will make your jaw drop.“Spectral Instruments is the most creative company you’ve never heard of,”  it’s a tiny company in Arizona that build outrageous camera mostly for scientific applications. But they want to put their lastest innovation in the hands of a select few pro photographers.

A few years ago, the photography world and the general public were wowed by the discovery of over 100,000 negatives left behind by a quiet nanny named Vivian Maier who spent most of her life documenting life on the sidewalks of New York and Chicago. However, recently, there has been another discovery of a film stockpile, all of which were shot by an unassuming photo hobbyist.

The Olympic Games are all about setting records, but why leave it just to the athletes? London Artist Clare Newton is attempting to create the world's longest photograph in time for the London Olympics. She’s been working on the project, called Jump4London, for nearly two years, photographing thousands of children and adults from all walks of life across London. She’s combined the over 109,000 images of people jumping into a giant panorama photograph that stretches over 1 kilometer (nearly a mile) long.

If you think you drop a lot of money on every latest model DSLR, get ready to feel thrifty. There’s a new record for world’s most expensive camera: a Leica 0-Series camera, which was a 1923 prototype for the groundbreaking Leica A, the first commercially successful 35mm compact camera sold at WestLicht Photographica auction in Vienna for €2.16 million (about $2.8 million).