Tag: Wetzlar

The 100th anniversary of the Leica Camera in Wetzlar drew over 800 guests, culminating in a successful auction where record prices were achieved for rare cameras and lenses.

On 26 June 2025, Leica celebrated the 100th birthday of two original cameras, models 554 and 555, with a party at the factory. Ivor Cooper brought No. 555 to be reunited with No. 554

In a parallel universe, the last of the rangefinders is not made in Wetzlar, Germany, but in Bolton, England. Here is an alternative Witness to a Century...

There are many ways in which we can relate and connect to Leica. But one word keeps coming back as an important cornerstone of our relationship. And that word is "Community".

For Leica Camera, 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of the Leica I. First presented to the public at the Leipzig Spring Fair in 1925, it was the first mass-produced Leica 35mm camera…

Photography can often be described as a journey, and this is the story of a 91-year journey for a Leica III that had been forgotten and left behind by time. I feel like I've been away from photography for a while. Like most people these days, the general state of the universe has got me down....

A rare prototype Leica M sold for an astonishing 2.4 million euros at last weekend's 45th Leitz Photographica Auction…

My Top 10 favourites in the next Leitz Photographic Auction. I have tried to depict the many steps along the way for cameras and optics since the 1850s...

This quarter's look back takes us into the realm of speculation and wishful thinking, as well as highlighting some incredible photography. Leica dominates the lineup, but we have a couple of entries from a new player on the scene.

The first photograph taken with a Leica camera, by its inventor Oskar Barnack, is of a scene in the town of Wetzlar, home of Leica. The scene, the Eisenmarkt, looks almost the same today as it did then, over a hundred years ago. So, naturally, any self-respecting Leica photographer wants to stand in the same spot that Barnack did, and take the same photo.

The 42nd Leitz Photographica Auction on June 9 and 10, 2023, saw a wide variety of vintage cameras, lenses and photographs up for sale. Among other objects, a rare Leica M3 black paint with black counter dial, as well as a Leica Model A Anastigmat, attracted great interest among bidders.

Everyone knows Leica Wetzlar. But what about Leidolf Wetzlar? Richard comes across a neglected Leidolf Lordomat at a camera fair and explores the history of this lesser name from the same home town as mighty Leica...