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  2. Leica Camera - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Ernst Leitz II - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. List of Leica Camera models - Wikipedia

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    Leica TL2 – The Leica TL2 is the successor of the Leica TL. Leica CL – The camera was introduced November 21, 2017. Non-Leica (Sigma and Panasonic) Sigma and Panasonic joined forces with Leica to form the L-mount Alliance on 25 September 2018 and license the L-mount system for their own lines of lenses and cameras. [16]

  5. List of Leica cameras - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Leica cameras. Leica Camera AG is a German optics company which produces Leica cameras . The predecessor of the company, formerly known as Ernst Leitz GmbH, is now three companies: Leica Camera AG, Leica Geosystems AG, and Leica Microsystems AG, producing cameras, geosurvey equipment, and microscopes, respectively.

  6. Leitz - Wikipedia

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    Louis Leitz (1846–1918), German inventor and founder of Esselte Leitz GmbH & Co KG; Ernst Leitz GmbH, German firm now divided into: Leica Camera, manufacturer of cameras; Leica Geosystems, manufacturer of geodetic equipment; Leica Microsystems, manufacturer of microscopes and owner of the Leica brand; Leica Biosystems, a cancer diagnostics ...

  7. Leica Freedom Train - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Leica Geosystems - Wikipedia

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    Thus in 1996, Leica Camera AG was founded, followed in October 1997 by Leica Geosystems AG, and on 1 April 1998 by Leica Microsystems AG. These three companies are independent public companies. Leica Geosystems produces, in continuation of Wild Heerbrugg, the geodetic instruments and is the global market leader in this section.

  9. Oskar Barnack - Wikipedia

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    In addition to these categories of "Leica Oskar Barnack Prize" and "Leica Oskar Barnack Award Newcomer Prize", ten finalists will be awarded with a cash prize of 2,500 euros for their series. [ 2 ] The winner of the main category "Leica Oskar Barnack Award" receives a cash prize of 25,000 euros and also a Leica M camera and a loan worth 10,000 ...