leica

More recently Leica introduced the Leica M Edition 60 rangefinder with interchangeable lenses.

During the 80's Wild Heerbrugg acquired Leitz (which owned Leica) to form the Wild Leitz AG (and later part of Leica Holding B.

Leica Camera, Leica Biosystems (rather new), Leica Geosystems and Leica Microsystems.

The other advantage of the Leica is the simplicity of the manual controls necessary for photography: Aperture, shutter speed, focus, shutter release.

For many buying a Leica is like buying a Louis Vuitton bag, but it is still the best working camera out there for it's specialized purpose.

Then there are collectibles such as Leica or something from the Springfield Custom shop, or Les Baer.

Yes, the Leica is, unfortunately, the only digital rangefinder camera that exists at this point in time (I own both an M9 and an X100s.

This makes a big, big difference in the active, engaged, photo-journalistic work that Leica is known for.

In one way the E-1 is superior: the ergonomics of the E-1 surpass Leica RF.

These are good cameras, but not great, and not approaching a Leica M for one reason: the viewfinders (or lack thereof).

For example, the Leica Disto2 laser rangefinder has a minimum measuring distance of 5cm.

I do enjoy using the Leica lenses with my Olympus EM cameras in manual mode, it's great fun.

Here's how Leica describes their expensive new Leica M-P digital camera: "For connoisseurs who appreciate the details." Not photographers, "connoisseurs."

Among M Leica cameras I once had an M-3, and have owned an M-6 since the 1980's ("Classic" according to the article).

They might look a little like rangefinders (in that they mostly don't have "hump" for the pentaprism which is an SLR feature) but they do not have coupled rangefinder focusing like the Leica does.

Leica Geosystems (which is basically a continuation of Wild Heerbrugg) is now part of Hexagon AB.

Jungle wisdom says you should never sell a Leica, because you're only going to buy another one for more money later anyway.

Lots of people say that cameras are just light-proof boxes:) Part of the Leica/Leitz history is that they single-handidly popularized the 35mm format.