Leica became renowned as a maker of high quality equipment for photography, photographic reproduction, and observation.Īfter the 1960s - company face increasingly stiff competition in the market from Japanese manufacturers.ġ972 - co-operation between Wild Heerbrugg, Switzerland and Leitz.ġ986 - Leica GmbH was founded to manage the Leitz camera division just as sales began to decline.ġ986/1987 - company merges with Wild Heerbrugg AG to form Wild Leitz.ġ990 - Wild Leitz and Cambridge Instruments group (including Reichert Jung) merge now Leica Microsystems GmbH, Wetzlar + Leica Camera AG, Solms, Germany + Leica Geosystems, Heerbrugg, Switzerland. Oskar Barnack, previously an employee of Zeiss, experimented with his idea for several years before he finally invented the Leica camera.ġ849 - Wetzlar Optical Institute founded by Carl Kellner (1823-1855).ġ864 - mechanic Ernst Leitz joined the Optical Institute, manufacturing lenses for telescopes and microscopes.ġ865-1869 - partnership as 'Optical Institute' Leitz became a partner.ġ869 - Ernst Leitz (1843-1920) takes over sole management and renames company as E Leitz, Wetzlar.ġ920 - management passes to Ernst Leitz (II) then to his sons, Ernst, Ludwig and Günther in 1956.ġ924 - the camera goes into mass production. The first 35-mm compact camera was developed and manufactured at the Leitz company. Vintage E.
Leica Yearbooks Call Leather 'Reporter' Bag, Demo 298 R-3 Black Body E Call. The company became highly successful manufacturing microscopes before branching out in to camera manufacture. Hensoldt Wetzlar Diasport 8×20 Compact Binoculars Circa 1950s Internal Fungus Cameras and Photography:Telescopes and Binoculars:Binoculars and Monoculars - Hensoldt Wetzlar. 2995 Oriental Seagull(DW)Fll 3110(25102 49.95 BINOCULARS COMPLETE WITH CASE.
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