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It is a very good measuring instrument. One should be lucky to posses to Leitz Tool Makers Microscope
While the name Leica was first applied to the Leica I camera in 1925, Ernst Leitz GmbH did not officially change its company name to Leica Camera AG until 1986.
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Ernst Hanfstängl was born on February 2, 1887.
Ernst Leitz was a German company. It has since been divided into three distinct companies, one that manufactures cameras, another manufactures geodesic equipment, and the last manufacturers Leica microscopes.
"Leitz" is pronounced as "lights" with a "z" sound at the end. The "ei" is pronounced like the English word "light."
The Mechanisms cannot be repaired but the files do come with a 3 year guarantee. Esselte/Leitz Customer Service
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A 35-millimeter camera It also makes several other types of cameras, too.
The first practical 35Mm still camera(as opposed to movie types) was the Ur-Leica designed by Oscar Barnack orignally in l9l3 it was on hold during the war(WWl) and WA snot offered commercially until about l923 or l924-=Germany in a severe mnetary crisis a the time. Leica pretty much controlled early 35-dom but it should be noted the traditonal Leica M-series very adpatable to press and candid if not clandestine photograpohy(the Fed camera was a SOVIET VERSIONOF THE LEICA II and was used and marked for service with the N.K.V.D. ( i have one of these).. these were not reflex camras so had a degree of parallax-difference between what was in the sight and what you get on film-mnodern slrs avoid this hazard completely. Leicas wee and are made by Ernst ZLeitz Ltd. of Wetzlar. The Fed was a Russian copy made by the Fed works in the Soviet Ukraine.