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We are so pleased to announce that Viewfinder has won two awards at the recent Excel Awards Virtual Ceremony in June 2021. Viewfinder took the GOLD Award for “Magazines: Design Excellence (circulation 10,000 or f […]

Dear friends, you are all invited to this free illustrated talk during National Heritage Week 2021 at the Gallery of Photography Ireland’s online lecture hall. (zoom/YouTube live, link below)

Date/Time: Aug 17 […]

We are very pleased to announce a special event for our meeting attendees this year:

The LHSA Photography Show, hosted by the Leica Store Bellevue.

And you are invited to submit your images for […]

Meetings and times are subject to change.

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Thursday, October 21

LHSA Conference attendees arrive

1:30 PM – 4:00 PM: LHSA Board meeting

6 PM – 8:30 PM: […]

My husband Tom and I spent our 50th wedding anniversary in a yurt in the Gobi Desert where the temperature was -30 degrees Fahrenheit! In case you ever desire to do the same, here is the story.

Our normal […]

The gear shown here can be used with any Leica camera from screw-mount to M to digital M. It consists of a Visoflex II or III reflex housing, a 65mm f/3.5 Elmar-V lens, and either an OTZFO or Bellows II — or b […]

In 2002 the American Photo- graphic Historical Society published a booklet titled The Greatest Invention of the Leitz Family: The Leica Freedom Train by Frank Dabba Smith. Norman Lipton, a Leitz employee in New […]

Elco Welding, housed in an old building at 1711 Abbot Kinney Boulevard, in Venice, California, is unique among the many nearby businesses and pricey shops in a very trendy area. Built in 1928, this structure has […]

An ancient bridge,

and a more ancient tower,

A farmhouse that is sheltered by its wall, An acre of stony ground,

Where the symbolic rose can break in flower, Old ragged elms, old thorns […]

I had a copy of this lens for testing during late July and early August 2020, the gap between the springtime lockdown and the autumn upsurge of the coronavirus.

When I get ready to write a report, the first […]

By Marc Hoch

I started collecting Leica many years ago, the abbreviation “KE-7 A” had a magical effect on me. This had mostly to do with Jim Lager. Because in his great book on the history of the Leica, the […]

In the spring of 1914 Ernst Leitz II visited America. He carried an UR-Leica. Giani Rogliatti refers to this event on page15 of his 1995 book Leica-the First 70 Years. The 2017 publication Oskar Barnack – From […]

Image by Ana Maria Arevalo Gosen, 2020 recipient of the LHSA Photo Grant

The fifth annual LHSA Photography Grant in the amount of $5,000 has been established to provide financial support for deserving p […]

Join us for a free webinar (members only):

DxO Nik Tools 4

Wednesday, Sept 15 · 1:30 Central Time (US & Canada)/ 8:30 PM Central European ST

Join Keith Sbiral, President, and Brad Husick, LHSA […]