Leitz Wetzlar Serial Numbers

Bamfords Auctioneers Valuers. Tuesday 8th, Wednesday 9th, Thursday 10th and Friday 11th October 2013 at 10. The Derby Auction House, Chequers Road, Derby. Welcome to our Website. We have been established as dealers in Antiques for 18 years and continue a family tradition, which was in general Antiques. Description. The Leica mount is precisely M39 126 i. DOCUMENTS. Some Leitz microscope serial numbers with corresponding years of manufacture. Leitz 1913 catalog in. View and Download Leica Q instructions manual online. Q Digital Camera pdf manual download. Leica Camera Wikipedia. Coordinates 5. 03. N0. 083. 21. 1E 5. N 8. 5. 36. 39E 5. Leica Camera AGAktiengesellschaft. Industry. Photography, Digital Imaging, Still cameras, SLR cameras, DSLR cameras, binoculars monoculars, binocular telescope, laser rangefinder. Leica Ernst Leitz Wetzlar Serial NumbersFounded. Germany 1. Headquarters. Wetzlar, Germany. Key people. Dr. Andreas Kaufmann Chairman, Board of Directors, Oliver Kaltner CEOProducts. Cameras, photographic lenses, binoculars and other optical equipment. Revenue 3. 65 million1Number of employees. Websitewww. leica camera. The M9 is a modern digital rangefinder camera from Leica. First image taken from the Ur Leica by Oskar Barnack 1. Eisenmarkt, Wetzlar, Germany. Leica Camera AG is a German company that manufactures optics and high end cameras. The company was founded by Ernst Leitz in 1. The name Leica is derived from the first three letters of his surname Leitz and the first two of the word camera lei ca. Leica cameraseditThe earliest Leica prototypes were developed by the company Ernst Leitz during the first years of the 2. The Leicas were innovative, by orienting the image frame sideways for the 3. The cameras were compact with collapsible lenses, for hiking and biking. The rangefinder feature was added with the Leica II during 1. In 1. 93. 3 the Leica III offered slow speed shutter controls and a fast 11. III a,b,c,d,f, g series became the flagship models and best sellers into the late 1. Further iterations of the models I and II were offered, but did not sell well. Prior to WWII Leica and competing Contax cameras from Zeiss Ikon were considered to be the finest 3. WWII the companies had competition from Soviet and Japanese copies. During the 1. 95. Japanese quality and innovation, along with low pricing, devastated the European camera industry. Leica became an expensive type of camera bought largely by professional or serious photographers. However, the advent of reflex camera technology made rangefinders somewhat obsolete, leaving Leica the main product of a diminishing market segment. Leica has remained a notable trade name into the 2. Century. The original producer of the cameras, Ernst Leitz Gmb. H, is now three companies Leica Camera AG, Leica Geosystems AG, and Leica Microsystems Gmb. H, which manufacture cameras, geosurvey equipment, and microscopes, respectively. Leica Microsystems Gmb. H owns the Leica brand and licenses its use by the other two companies. HistoryeditBefore WWIIeditThe first 3. Leica prototypes were built by Oskar Barnack at Ernst Leitz Optische Werke, Wetzlar, in 1. Intended as a compact camera for landscape photography, particularly during mountain hikes, the Leica was the first practical 3. The Leica transports the film horizontally, extending the frame size to 2. The Leica had several model iterations, and in 1. Barnack convinced his boss, Ernst Leitz II, to make a pre production series of 3. Though the prototypes received a mixed reception, Ernst Leitz decided in 1. It was an immediate success when introduced at the 1. Leipzig Spring Fair as the Leica I for Leitz camera. The focal plane shutter has a range from 12. Z for Zeit time position. Barnack conceived the Leica as a small camera that produced a small negative. To make large photos by enlargement, the small negative, large picture concept requires that the camera have high quality lenses that could create well defined negatives. Barnack tried a Zeiss Tessar on his early prototype camera, but because the Tessar was designed for the 1. Leicas 2. 43. 6mm negative. Barnack resorted to a Leitz Mikro Summar 1 4. The first Leica lens was a 5. Cooke triplet of 1. Max Berek at Leitz. The lens has five elements in three groupsthe third group being three cemented elementsand was initially named the Leitz Anastigmat. Unlike other triplets, the Leitz Anastigmat has the diaphragm between the first and second elements. When the Leica was first vended, this lens was renamed the ELMAX, for E Leitz and MAX Berek. By 1. 92. 5, the Leitz laboratories had produced glasses with improved optical properties, and Professor Berek designed an improved version of the ELMAX named the ELMAR that had four elements in three groups. The third group was simplified to two cemented elements, which was easier and cheaper to make. Professor Berek had two dogs, Hektor and Rex. The first of these, Hektor, gave his name to a series of Leica lenses, and the name of the second appeared in the Summa. REX. 3In 1. 93. 0 the Leica I Schraubgewinde was first produced, with an exchangeable lens system based on a 3. Leica Thread Mount or LTM. In addition to the 5. During the mid 1. Thambar 9. 0 mm f2. It is now a rare collectors item. The Leica II was first produced in 1. This model has a separate viewfinder showing a reduced image and rangefinder. In 1. 93. 2 the flange to filmplane was standardised to 2. Leica model C, and the Leica Standard the next year. The Leica III added slow shutter speeds down to 1 second, and the model IIIa added the 11. The IIIa is the last model made before Barnacks death, and therefore the last model for which he was wholly responsible. Leitz continued to refine the original design through to 1. The final version, the IIIg, includes a large viewfinder with several framelines. These models all have a functional combination of circular dials and square windows. Early Leica cameras bear the initials D. R. P., which stands for Deutsches Reichspatent, the name for German patents before May 1. This is probably a reference to German patent No. Rollfilmkamera granted to Ernst Leitz, Optische Werke in Wetzlar, on 3 November 1. Ur Leica original Leica, from 1. Leica I, 1. 92. 7Leica I, from 1. Leitz Elmar 1 3,5 F5 cm lens. Reproduction of the Leica Prototype, 1. The company had always had progressive labor policies which encouraged the retention of skilled workers, many of whom were Jewish. Ernst Leitz II, who began managing the company in 1. Hitler in 1. 93. 3 by helping Jews to leave Germany, by assigning hundreds even if they were not actually employees to overseas sales offices where they were helped to find jobs. The effort intensified after Kristallnacht in 1. September 1. 93. 9. The extent of what came to be known as the Leica Freedom Train only became public after his death, well after the war. After WWIIeditAfter the war, Leitz continued to produce the late versions of the Leica II and the Leica III through the 1. However, in 1. 95. Leitz introduced the Leica M3, with the new Leica M mount, a bayonet like lens mount. The new camera also combined the rangefinder and viewfinder into one large, bright viewfinder with a brighter double image in the center. This system also introduced a system of parallax compensation and a new rubberized, reliable, focal plane shutter. Leica continues to refine this model the latest versions being the MP and MA, both of which have frames for 2. Post war models bear the initials DBP, standing for Deutsches Bundespatent Federal German Patent, instead of the DRP Deutsches Reich patent found on pre war models. A number of camera companies built models based on the Leica rangefinder design. These include the Leotax, Nicca and early Canon models in Japan, the Kardon in USA, the Reid in England and the FED and Zorki in the USSR. Leica IIIf 1. 95. Leicas, with 5. 0mmf. Summarit. Leica M3 chrome Singlestroke 1. Leica Meter M, Booster and collapsible Elmar f5 cm 1 2,8 M3. Leicas MP of 2. 00. M3 of 1. 95. 4Modern Leica M series. Camera wiki. org. The 3. 9mm screw mount also called Leica Thread Mount LTM, Leica Screw Mount LSM, or M3. Leica with the model I C, and used on all the Leica models until the bayonet mount M3. The mount was adopted on many Leica copies and other 3. Description The Leica mount is precisely M3. Very early Canon J mount used an incompatible M3. It has been said that early Soviet cameras used M3. The film to flange distance was not standardized on very early Leica until 1. Fed and Zorki until the early postwar years. These cameras were individually matched to their lenses, by way of shims, and this may cause compatibility problems. The most important rangefinder camera bodies using the Leica screw mount are. Some manufacturers made cameras and lenses with a 3. Leica one, because of the different film to flange distance. Three such systems are. Further, screwmount lenses by Meopta may at first appear to be for the Leica however, these have 3. Opema. List We will attempt to make a list of 3. These are arranged alphabetically by company name, or by brand name when the manufacturer is unknown. All the lenses in this list are genuine Leica mount lenses, or at least were advertised as such by reputable dealers. Today some merchants convert old and rare lenses into Leica mount. Please do not include these converted lenses in the list. Type R1. 1, black5 3. Type X1, black. 3. Retrofocus R1, black. Type S2 collapsible, chrome, focusing tab, for Gamma 5. Type S2. 1, black and chrome5 9. Type P1, black5 1. Type Y2, black. See the main article on Arco lenses. Colinar 8. 5cm f2. Colinar 1. 3. 5cm f3. Tele Colinar 1. 3. Tele Snowva 1. 3. Askania A surprisingly long Fern Achromat TE NPL 1. Auction Breker Kln on 0. It was mounted on a reflex housing looking like the Astro Identoskop. A table engraved indicated the other lenses. LR TPL 2. 74. 20mm. TE NPL 1. 69. 25mm. EX T 2. 21. 25. EX TPL 3. Probably for military use only. Astro Berlin seems to have made some lenses with a genuine Leica mount. Today, many sellers are adapting Astro lenses to the Leica mount, often assembling them with the rear barrel of a 5. Elmar. 5. 51. 8 Pan Tachar, chrome, coupled. Gauss Tachar, black and chrome, coupled 6 1. Pan Tachar, black and chrome, coupled7 1. Astro Portrait, black and chrome, heavy tripod collar, with Identoskop reflex housing8 4. Fernbildlinse, black, with Identoskop reflex housing, huge ring around the barrel9 3in2 EF Anastigmat, black, rangefinder coupled observed for sale by a dealer saying that it is an original mount. Angulor, chrome 1. Flor, chrome 1. 2 3. Flor, chrome 1. 4 5. Flor collapsible, chrome1. Flor, chrome or chrome and black1. Flor, chrome1. 9 7. Flor, chrome and black2. Flor, chrome2. 1 1. Flor, chrome2. 2 1. Tl, chrome online auction. Links See Canon 3. See Corfield 3. 9mm screw lenses. Super Six, all chrome, collapsible with focusing tab. Super Six, non collapsible2. Dallac, chrome and black, C P logo on the barrel. Dalrac, chrome and black, exists with knurled or milled aperture ring, C P logo on the barrel, seen with a Reid military engraving on the other side of the barrel. Dallon, Tele Anastigmat, black but one chrome ring, maybe uncoupled. Dallon, for Visoflex. Dallon Tele Anastigmat, with rifle stock, for Visoflex. A 1. 27. 7 Dallon Tele Anastigmat has been offered for sale at e. Bay with a Dallmeyer prototype reflex housing. Elionar An Elionar Anastigmat 5cm f3. Leica screw mount. It was made for the Sonne Italian Leica copy. Ennaston, chrome, black tripod collar at the base2. Industar 1. 0 copy of the Leitz Elmar 5. Industar 6. 1 1 2. Fuji made Fujinon lenses in Leica mount in the 1. See Fuji lenses for Leica and Nikon. Eptamitar, collapsible, all chrome, focusing tab. A lens marked Dr Hensoldt Optik Wetzlar 1 1. PROTO in a rigid chrome mount has been seen at an e. Torrent Roy Orbison Discography Torrent. Bay auction. An identical lens with sn 1. Christies 8 June 1. Leica Standard copy, with no more precision. The Isco Westar 5. Recta, a rangefinder variant of the Rectaflex. Kilfitt lenses had a set of adapters, to attach them on various lens mounts, among them Visoflex. Kilfitt lens with a fixed 3. Kilar D, chrome, sn 2. XXXX. Industar lenses these are Tessar type. Industar 2. 6m 1 2. FED. Industar 5. Industar 2. U enlarger lens. Industar 9. U 1 enlarger lens. Jupiter lenses these are copies of the Zeiss Sonnar series. See the main article K. O. L. and Sun lenses in Leica screw mount. K. O. L. Xebec 5cm f2, all chrome collapsible, six elements. Made by Sanky Kki, alias Komura. W Komura, black and chrome, hood, Sankyo Kohki Japan on beauty ring. W Komura, black and chrome, no maker mark on beauty ring. W Komura, black and chrome, focusing tab, Sankyo Kohki Japan on beauty ring. Komura, black with wide chrome stripes, focusing tab. Komura, black with wide chrome stripes, Sankyo Kki Tokyo on beauty ring. Tele Kinegon, black wchrome front and mount, S. K. Japan on beauty ring. Note The 2 8. 01. Tele Kinegon and mixed black and chrome for the Komura. Komura, black and chrome, Sankyo Kki Tokyo on beauty ring. Komura, black wchrome mount, Sankyo Kki Japan on beauty ring. Komura, black wchrome front and mount, Sankyo Kki Tokyo on beauty ring. Komura, black and chrome, Sankyo Kki Tokyo on beauty ring. Note The 3 versions of the Komura 1. Komura, version 1 black wchrome front and mount, Sankyo Kki Japan on beauty ring. Komura, version 2 black wchrome aperture ring and mount, Sankyo Kohki Japan on beauty ring. Note The 2 versions of the Komura 1. Version 2 is longer, and, at common focus distances, its front element is farther from the film plane than is version 1s. Komura, black with chrome mount, finder, hood, Sankyo Kohki Japan on beauty ring. Komura, black with chrome mount, finder, hood, Sankyo Kohki Japan on beauty ring. Komura, all chrome, Sankyo Optical Works Ltd. Komura, black with chrome mount, Sankyo Kki Japan on beauty ring. Note The chrome and black versions of the Komura 1. At common focus distances, the front and rear elements of the chrome version sit closer to the film plane than do the black versions. Komura, black with chrome mount, Sankyo Kohki Japan on beauty ring. Visoflex. Jupiter 1. Jupiter 1. 1A 41. Konishiroku and Konica. See Konishiroku lenses in Leica screw mount for the lenses made by Konicas predecessor Konishiroku in the 1. Hexar 5. 0mm f3. Hexanon 5. Hexanon 6. 0mm f1. See Konica lenses in Leica screw mount for the lenses made by Konica in the 1. UC Hexanon. 5. 02. Hexanon collapsible. Hexanon. The Italian optical company Koristka, based in Milano, made a Victor 5. Leica mount for the Gamma, an Italian Leica copy. It is marked F. lli KORISTKA for Fratelli Koristka. See the main article on Kowa lenses for other cameras. Kowa made two or perhaps three lenses in Leica screw mount, in very small quantities. Prominar 3. 5mm f2. Kallowide. Prominar 1. Prominar 2. 00mm f2. The Prominar 7. 5cm f3. Leica dating from the late 1. Kowa. They are actually similar to the Sun Sola, and were certainly manufactured by Sun or its predecessor. See K. O. L. and Sun lenses in Leica screw mount. Kristall A Kristall Krinar Anastigmat 5. Leica screw mount. It was made for the Kristall Italian Leica copy. Kyei Acall Made by Kyei under the Acall brand. W Acall, black and chrome, looks the same as Komura and Telesar 3. W. Acall Kyoei. Leica Summicron 1 23. ASPH. Leica Summicron 1 25.