From essential accessory to Leica logo bearer, to world’s most losable lens protector By Jason Schneider Oskar Barnack got it right the first time when he affixed the c.1914 Ur-Leica’s flat metal lens cap directly to the front flange of its collapsible lens...
This is the first of three articles based upon images received from Ashley Wolff, Dr. Paul Wolff ’s granddaughter. These articles are an attempt to answer several otherwise unanswered biographic questions: What was the nature of Paul Wolff ’s...
The grey paint finished 13.5cm 1:4.5 Hektor (codeword HEFAR) was briefly discussed in the Viewfinder #4, 1983. Two lenses were illustrated 575211 on the cover and 576111 in the article. During August and September 1944, Leitz Wetzlar shipped 13.5cm...
These photographs from a number of years ago are of a steam-powered excursion train and locomotive, both before and after its arrival at Vermont's Chester Depot RR station, following one of its sightseeing runs starting from Bellows Falls VT. Although...
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 fitted with a 5cm Hektor engraved 107. The...
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 divisible assembly. The ADFIK is engraved Leitz...
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 interested. When I opened a copy of his...
Haus Friedwart, the Wetzlar home built by Ernst Leitz II, is well known to students of Leica history. It stands on the hill above the old factory in Wetzlar, known as the Kalsmunt, at 4 Lauferdorfer Weg, with a commanding view of the factory, Wetzlar...
Manfred Heiting, who is compiling a definitive bibliography of everything that Dr. Wolff published, has turned up two more catalogs from the famous 1934 Leitz-sponsored first exhibition of Dr. Wolff ’s Leica enlargements. These pamphlets in Spanish and...
During the preparation of my first book I had to choose the front cover illustration. I wanted a Leica that would attract attention. Among the rarest and eye catching were the Leica 250, Compur, IId, 72, MP, and Luxus. I chose the LUXUS. The front cover...
