Since the earliest Leicas Leitz has prepared a multitude of advertising material to spread the Leica gospel worldwide. Cameras, lenses, and accessories ( the hardware ) are well known to most Leica enthusiasts. Much of the advertising ( what I call...
REMEMBERING TOM by BILL ROSAUER I’M not sure when I met Tom, as it seems like we have been friends forever. It must have been back in the late 1980’s and I’m sure it was at one of the LHSA annual meetings. Tom’s enthusiasm for photography...
#BelieveinFilm with the Leica M4 The Leica M4, the lineal descendant of the landmark M3 and the simplified M2, commenced production in November 1966. It combined the features of both of its predecessors and added a few of its own, all aimed at enhancing...
Photo Credit: Joe Biegel On Friday, January 6, 2017, LHSA lost a beloved member, friend, and mentor, Tom Abrahamsson. Tom had recently fallen and became ill. He was hospitalized and due to go home the day he passed...
It is almost a truism that when one thinks one has finished a piece of research and put it to bed with a Viewfinder article, something additional pops up to bite one’s posterior. In this instance, my recent article on Dr. Paul Wolff ’s exhibitions...
Leica advertising to the end of 1932 speaks of the Leica’s simplicity of operation, compactness, readiness, and excellent results obtainable from the format. Here are a few examples provided by Lawrence Gubas, author of the just-published book...
Last year, as the finishing touches were being made on the Dr. Paul Wolff Bibliography, I became aware of an exhibition catalogue from a December 2008 photo salon at the JCII (Japan Camera Industry Institute) Museum in Tokyo. This salon was entitled “1930’s...
An unusual Leitz optical viewfinder was utilized by sports photographer Lothar Rubelt at the 1952 summer Olympic Games at Helsinki, Finland. The viewfinder is essentially a low power Leitz monocular fitted to the accessory shoe of a Visoflex 1. Parallax...
Longtime LHSA member Dr. Wayne Hull details the Leitz, New York X-ray Leica in the Viewfinder Volume 5, #1, Jan-March 1972. During World War II Leitz New York crafted a modified Leica housing for X-ray applications. Draftees were screened for medical...
Of course, we speak of long abandoned systems – digitalization has changed everything – but they are still of interest for Leica collectors, since they “explain” the use of the “Post” MD’s and MDa’s found in so many collections. As well...
