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Anja Bruehling is a documentary photographer. She grew up in Germany and partly South Africa and now resides in Chicago. She has worked and traveled in over 70 countries. As a photographer she is documenting […]

The original 8-element Leitz 35 f/2 Summicron from 1958 is a classic lens, still coveted for the “Leica glow” of its images and its lack of distortion, and as a now-pricey collectible. It comes in a variety of […]

In 1999, LHSA published a special supplement to Viewfinder (Vol. 32, No.  4) entitled “Dr. Paul Wolff, Pioneer of Leica Photography”.  This supplement  was the brainchild of then-president of LHSA Roy Moss, […]

So, here we have Leica’s upgrade to the SL, or so I thought, but it isn’t quite that simple.

I have been looking back at my Lightroom
catalogue and it seems that I first shot with the Leica SL on June 1, 201 […]

Normally a lens matched to the non-standardized Leica C
is engraved
with the last three numerals of the camera serial number.
The illustrations show a 3.5cm Elmar engraved 585 on camera 53585. Camera
49107 is […]

The March 1947 E. Leitz New York instruction sheet 1320-3 discusses the operation of the #66742 ADFIK Adjustable Lens Sunshade and Filter Holder. 34mm unmounted filter glasses could be mounted into the […]

LHSA proudly presents our newest video with LHSA member, Costa Manos. In this series, we sit down with experts in Leica Camera buying, collecting, shooting, editing, and more! We ask them to share their best […]

A couple of months ago I received an email from member Oscar Fricke asking whether I might like to review this book, which he had helped his father, our Founder and President Emeritus Rolf Fricke, to  […]

Silver Efex Pro II (SEPII) is a market-leading monochrome conversion plug-in that works well with both Lightroom and Photoshop. This article discusses how you can launch this program from both Lightroom and […]

Editor’s Note: LHSA – The
International Leica Society held its annual convention in Boston, from October
18-19, 2019. Justin Smith and Ham Hollett, two of LHSA’s newest members, share
their impressions of the m […]

Before the M cameras and their faster lenses, or today’s astronomic digital ISO numbers, photographers had to contend with the same low light conditions as now, but with slow film speeds and lenses with smaller […]

This article will serve the dual purposes of explaining how I came to use Leicas, but more importantly, to remind us of the centenary of Ernst Haas’s birth on 2 March 2021, and why we should be i […]

Sessions and times are subject to change

Wednesday, May 13

Board Members arrive

Thursday, May 14

Arrival day for Spring Shoot Attendees

2:00 – 5 PM        Board meeting […]

images by Rosalynn Tay

I came to photography a little late in life, I am a self-taught photographer, was a keen ballroom dancer (danced competitively in international competitions) and a former journalist. […]

The Leica M10 Monochrom opens the door to a new dimension of black-and-white photography. Equipped with a newly developed image sensor, the camera delivers an extremely high-quality rendition with breathtaking […]