Tag: Leica M3

Above all Leica represents a sense of community. You become part of a group that enjoys photography. Enjoys history. Enjoys travel. and enjoys technical prowess.

Some relationships are meant to be, no matter how innocently and unassumingly they start out. Tom Lane's relationship with Leica is not a brittle affair, but one that accommodates differences as it grows.

Catalogues of the top auctions represent a remarkably efficient way of learning about the history of cameras and photography. The 45th Leitz Auction to be held in Vienna on 23 November 2024 is no exception to this, particularly in relation to Leitz/Leica items…

News review from Macfilos.com

Welcome to this week's Leica news. We bring news of a new underwater housing for Leica M10 and M11 cameras, an M lens with depth-of-field graphic from 1951 and a white ceramic recreation of the iconic V1 Summicron 35mm from the 1950s. And there is a significant jubilee drawing close…

It will be hard to top the €14m-plus record of last year's Wetzlar Leitz Auction but William Fagan provides his selection of lots that are likely to grab the interest of collections at this year's event in June...

Eisenstaedt pulled open his desk drawer and a very special Leica, the M3E-1 clattered forth. "This must be the one you want to see"...

There is no let up in demand for film cameras, especially from Leica which is now the only manufacturer left. Prices of used bodies have risen to dizzying heights and some believe that the bubble is about to burst...

Whever I see an old Leica used as a prop I have to investigate. This promotional video Squarespace uses an M3. But which M3? And why doesn't it look like Mike's 1954 double-stroke example?

The M3 arrived in 1954, but the M-mount was patented this month in 1954, so it celebrates its platimum anniversary early, ahead of the celebrations due in 2024.

Looks like there is an appetite for a cheaper entry-level M rangefinder. Should Leica follow Apple in offering a range of new vereisons of older cameras?

Leica still produces two film cameras, the MP and the M-A and they sell in sufficient quantities to justify their existance. But, as this article points out, Leica isn't a museum and has to move with the times.