It’s a point of personal pride among Leica fanatics like us that many of the world’s greatest photographers used Leica cameras and lenses to capture many of the most memorable and widely circulated images shot over the past 90 years. Indeed, practically...
In Viewfinder Volume 44, Issue 2 (2011) I placed this query (right). Recently and fortuitously I was put in contact with Dr. Knut Kühn-Leitz, who it turns out has information about Photographia zu Wetzlar, since his father, Kurt Kühn, was one of its principals;...
Image by Jason Schneider From elegant to over-the-top, they celebrate the Leica’s unique heritage Leica has offered special editions ever since the Leica Deluxe (more commonly known as the Leica Luxus) of circa 1930-1931. Essentially an exquisitely...
Yes, they were (and still are!) literally radioactive, but they incorporated elements made of thorium and lanthanum glass because of their unique optical properties By Jason Schneider By the late 1940s, the management at Leica knew they needed to come...
In the years 1933 to 1935, Dr. Paul Wolff, with the advocacy and assistance of Ernst Leitz II, mounted his famous traveling exhibition of Leica images to popularize the Leica camera and its capabilities. The 200 images traveled across western Europe and to both...
FOUR Leica enthusiasts for a group photo while attending an April 1999 Camera Fair in Italy. They are Gianni Rogliatti, C. Sartorius, Paul Henry van Hasbroeck, and Jim Lager.
THE British magazine MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY circa 1930 illustrates what appears to be the earliest FISON lens shade mounted to a Leica A. The rectangular opening rotated as the lens was focused making it necessary to reorient...
Alfred Wehner is one of the founders of Leica Historica (the German Leica society), and editor of its VIDOM journal from its founding in 1975 to 2006. Alfred Wehner explains his piece "Schätzen" for us. “This text is from what I wrote in VIDOM Nr. 88 (2005)....
Leica’s penchant for moderate telephoto lenses dates back to 1931 when Leitz unveiled two new ones in anticipation of the landmark Leica II (or D) of 1932: the first Leica with interchangeable lenses and a built-in coupled rangefinder. The 90mm f/4 Elmar,...
In 2016 Leica started reissuing their old legendary lenses with the first one of this series being the Summaron-M 28mm f/5.6 and later followed with this new version of the Thambar, the Leica Thambar-M 90mm f/2.2 on October 17th 2017. The original...
