Never officially listed, they were sometimes available on requestWhile the factory at E. Leitz Wetzlar can hardly be described as a cottage industry, it retained some aspects of the precision workshop mentality well into the postwar era. Indeed,...
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Historical Articles
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 York comments on page 9, “ I observed...
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 seen many years of local history, and is still...
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 the Idea to the Leica by Ulf Richter contains...
At Photokina 1966 Leitz Wetzlar announced new products, including the 50mm 1:1.2 Noctilux, welcomed by available light specialists of the day. Evaluation of prototypes circa 1964-1966 suggested the Noctilux set new performance standards at the widest...
Ingenious innovations that paved the way for two classic Leicas.The original Leicaflex, now known as the Leicaflex Standard, was the first 35mm SLR made by Leitz Wetzlar. It officially debuted in 1963, reached the market in 1964, and was phased out in 1968....
From the earliest days of the Leica, enlargers were an integral part of the system because contact prints from the 24 x 36mm format were viewed as an intermediate step, and not as the end product. Indeed, some of the earliest promotional literature for the Leica...
Yes, but they weren’t oversights, but rare artifacts of a transitional eraSince E. Leitz Wetzlar was almost fanatically fastidious about engraving serial numbers on its cameras and lenses (even accessories!) and in keeping meticulous records that...
Images courtesy of James LagerMade for internal use only, some have wound up on the open marketLike most camera manufacturers, Leica produced a limited number of cameras destined for internal use, for everything from field testing lenses, accessories,...
A wide range of decorative materials for camera store window displays has been produced for Leica cameras, lenses and accessories over the decades. Unfortunately, not many of the displays from the early period have survived, as sensitive materials such...
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