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The original Leica I (model A) created a sensation the instant it was unveiled at the Leipzig Fair of 1925. Its phenomenal success was based on its ingenious and forward-looking design concept, superb mechanical […]

The original Leica Q arrived just in time for Christmas in 2014, it was a real surprise and has proved to be a well deserved success for Leica. My article on the camera “Hemingway: The Leica Q” was
published whe […]

Reflections are ever present in our daily lives – in our morning mirrors, the large plate glass panes of urban buildings, on the shiny metal surfaces of our automobiles. When we glimpse reflections, we see our […]

For catching the moment you want to preserve during action on stage, the camera features needed most are a large and bright view with visible edges to compose in, continuous viewing so you can see the exact […]

My trip started with a delay from the Charlotte airport to New York. The problem was compounded because my once-a-day flight to Iceland was leaving before I was supposed to land. Ultimately, from my New York […]

Shooting Norway’s landscape with the  mm Summilux-M. Norway’s landscape is famous for giant fjords, rows of mountains, and vast tundra wilderness. In this trip I will be trying to capture all those essences […]

The Leica system has always had a wide angle lens option available, going all the way back to the 3.5cm Elmar and the 2.8cm Hektor lenses in the early days of the interchangeable Barnack Leica cameras. Within a […]

The first prototype of the 75mm APO-Summicron-SL arrived in January 2017. I had several copies of that lens over the next year whilst Leica refined the autofocus. I have to say that the image quality never […]

When he found out that I was writing about Kurt Kühn and Photographia, our friend Lars Netopil from the German Leica Historica notified me that he had some related materials. What he has sent me included scanned […]

Who was Snyder and what connection did he have to Leitz Wetzlar? Indiana native Paul Snyder served with the United States Army in the European Theatre (France from 1944). A few days after Wetzlar, Germany was […]

The May-June 1937 publication Leica News & Technique from E. Leitz (London) illustrates a device labeled The Leitz Propaganda Projector.The article, reproduced here, details the applications for this unusual […]

The 1980 PHSNE (Photographic Historical Society of New England) show in Boston featured a number of unusual items for the collector. I encountered a tiny Voigtländer folding camera equipped with a horizontally […]

All
good things come to an end.  For years Leica has allowed you to customize
certain M bodies to your tastes. That history ends on June 7, 2019, which is
the last day you can order an a-la-carte Leica MP film […]

Alan Weinschel

It has been a busy time for LHSA.  We had a terrific spring shoot in Asheville
NC.   If you were there you know what I
am talking about.  Great instruction from
our unofficial headmaster Dav […]

Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus with a new Leica CL ‘100 jahre bauhaus’ Edition! The special edition set reflects the design concept of simplicity advocated by the Bauhaus school in accordance […]

Images by Kirstin Vignes

As one of the youngest members of LHSA, I don’t have a great deal of society meet ups under my belt, but I’ve attended enough to know that the recent Spring Shoot in Asheville, NC was […]

A short, pithy excerpt from an endless ongoing saga

Leicas always were, and still are, produced in much smaller
quantities than, say, Canons and Nikons. That makes the number and percentage
of renowned […]

Image by Gary Hough

The horrific fire at Notre Dame in Paris on April 15 is a tragedy beyond description. The restoration will take many years and the pain of loss will persist. This is an opportunity for us […]