When he found out that I was writing about Kurt Kühn and Photographia, our friend Lars Netopil from the German Leica Historica notified me that he had some related materials. What he has sent me included scanned images of several cameras and accessories...
Who was Snyder and what connection did he have to Leitz Wetzlar? Indiana native Paul Snyder served with the United States Army in the European Theatre (France from 1944). A few days after Wetzlar, Germany was liberated, Lt. Snyder was assigned to be the U.S....
The May-June 1937 publication Leica News & Technique from E. Leitz (London) illustrates a device labeled The Leitz Propaganda Projector.The article, reproduced here, details the applications for this unusual Leitz accessory.The Leica Dealers...
The 1980 PHSNE (Photographic Historical Society of New England) show in Boston featured a number of unusual items for the collector. I encountered a tiny Voigtländer folding camera equipped with a horizontally mounted range- finder. The rangefinder...
All good things come to an end. For years Leica has allowed you to customize certain M bodies to your tastes. That history ends on June 7, 2019, which is the last day you can order an a-la-carte Leica MP film camera, Leica M240 or Leica M246 body....
Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus with a new Leica CL '100 jahre bauhaus' Edition! The special edition set reflects the design concept of simplicity advocated by the Bauhaus school in accordance with the principles of ‘form follows...
A short, pithy excerpt from an endless ongoing sagaLeicas always were, and still are, produced in much smaller quantities than, say, Canons and Nikons. That makes the number and percentage of renowned photographers who’ve shot with Leica cameras...
by Larry St. Lezin"My" first Leica was not actually mine, but a loan. I was a 16-year-old with lots of enthusiasm for photography and no money. I had recently managed to cobble together enough birthday and Christmas cash to buy a Fujica Compact Deluxe...
Since I was young, I’ve been interested in visual arts and in the 80s I started painting. It was not until the early 90s that I discovered photography to express myself, but I wasn’t very serious in the beginning. As usually happens when one starts...
It’s got 4 lobes, 10 electronic contacts… and legs! It’s not really a “universal mount” but it transports Leica into the mirrorless future.When Leica launched the L-mount in 2014 with the debut of the APS-C-format Leica T ((Typ 701) they...
