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Leica Camera

Posted on Thursday, August 13, 2009 in Uncategorized

Leica Camera

Leica cameras get their name from a shortening of "Leitz Camera". While the plant personnel Leitz Wetzlar in 1911, Oskar Barnack has undertaken to create a portable device. The Wetzlar works dating from 1849, founded by Carl Kellner, optical and mathematical development of lenses and microscopes.

Barnack had started his career as an engineer at the Carl Zeiss factory in Jena. In fact, he designed the layout of Leica in 1905, but for several years the concept that there in his brain. It has a picture of 1914 with the UR-Leica compact predecessor in order to retract Bronze, counting the arrival of the First World War The photo shows a German soldier showing an early mobilization order of Kaiser Wilhelm.

The result of his work is the basic 35mm camera. In collaboration with the acclaimed lens developed by Max Berek, Ernst Leitz, located in the small German town Solms (near Frankfurt), managed to bring the new Leica camera with the commercial market as a Leica at a fair in Leipzig.

When introduced, the Leica I, the photographers were used to carry the suitcase the size of photographic accessories. Cameras closed using 13 inches by 16 inches flat, rather than the current 35mm film on reels.

For these portable devices are so small and light the today's standards, Leica cameras were seen as toys for the bag of a lady. This first impression is soon dispelled when the public came to appreciate the stunning images from the camera and produces its extreme durability.

Carl Wolff, who bought the company in 1926, contributed greatly to the Leica brand visibility. Leica is also famous for high quality binoculars, which dates from 1907. Leica Camera Sales in 1932 were $ 90,000 and one million in 1961.

These cameras have witnessed two world wars rugged, often both sides of the conflict. Not just Americans, but Russians liked Leica World War II. The Soviets were seen as the Leica a guilty pleasure, despite its capitalist "fascist" origins. Ironically, many of the Leica family were Jewish.

Russian Aleksandr Rodchenko, sulptor and also a painter, drew many memorable images, such as 1934's "Girl with a Leica." Teammate Russian Ilya Ehrenburg, has created a series of 1930 images representing the bottom of the first-France between the two world wars.

In the 1930s, French painter Henri Cartier-Bresson moved his art to photography. The means of transformation was the Leica camera. His frankness often in black and white are among the best in Leica illustrious heritage.

The famous Times Square kiss Valentine was filmed by Alfred Eisenstaedt of a Leica.

All Photographers world have praised several Leica cameras like the Leica R, Leica M3, Leica M3, and the last Leicaflex SL (his first SLR). Fans of the brand has a cult favorite since un n º 107, Leica model test market in 1923, sold in 2007 for a record price of almost half a million U.S. dollars.

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Lawrence R. Bell is Editor for The Antiques Bible (

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