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Leica Camera AG (/ ˈ l aɪ k ə /) is a German company that manufactures cameras, optical lenses, photographic lenses, binoculars, and rifle scopes.The company was founded by Ernst Leitz in 1869 (Ernst Leitz Wetzlar), in Wetzlar, Germany.
John Beckley, 1872 & 1884-1896 (Founder of Beckley) [2] Thaddeus K. Scott, 1891; Robert T. Willis, 1893; ... John Wesley Smith, 1963–1970; John Howard McCulloch ...
Followed by Leica Luxur and Leica Compur (a total of 60,586 of the Leica I, Luxur, and Compur models were made). Interchangeable lenses for these were introduced in 1930. Leica Standard: 1932. The first Leica camera was designed with a film-to-lens flange distance of 28.8 millimeters. Leica II: 1932. The first Leica camera with a rangefinder.
Ernst Leitz II (1 March 1871 – 15 June 1956) was a German business person and humanitarian. He was the second head of the optics company now known as Leica Camera and organized the Leica Freedom Train to allow people, most of whom were Jewish, to escape from Germany during Nazi times.
Ernst Leitz II (1871–1956), Industrialist and director of the Leitz Camera company (later Leica). Elsie Kuehn-Leitz (1903–1985), daughter of Ernst Leitz II. The Leica Freedom Train was a rescue effort in which hundreds of Jews were smuggled out of Nazi Germany before the Holocaust by Ernst Leitz II of the Leica Camera company, and his ...
Wesley J. Smith (born 1949), American lawyer and author Wesley O. Smith (1878–1951), American newspaper publisher and businessman Wesley Smith (academic) , physics professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison
[69] [70] Originally, each US$3.50 (including processing) Kodachrome cartridge gave eighteen exposures [71] if the camera used the 24×36 mm frame size (double the frame size of 35 mm cine cameras) established by the Multi-Speed Shutter Co. Simplex (USA) camera of 1914 and popularized by the E. Leitz Leica A (Germany) of 1925. [72]
John Smith is a common personal name. It is also commonly used as a placeholder name and pseudonym, ... J. Wesley Smith, a character in cartoons of Burr Shafer (1899 ...