Tag Archives: Leica

PHSC News 26-2 (April) issued

Posted on April 15, 2026 by Robert

Toronto. Spring may be here …  and editor Gunn has prepared another tasty issue to delight the eye – all 17 pages.  This issue is the April 2026 issue. Issue 26-2 articles and posters cover: The 1858 Molson Brewery fire … Continue reading →

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on the move again …

Posted on December 29, 2025 by Robert

Toronto. After Leitz sold its Midland plant to the American military contractor  Hughes Aircraft (Los Angeles), Leica sales and repair in Canada bounced from one distributor to another, landing briefly at Lisle-Kelco who closed in 2003. The brief article accompanying … Continue reading →

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a game changer

Posted on November 20, 2025 by Robert

Toronto. When 35mm movie film ‘ends’ were common, various cameras using the ends were sold, but failed to gain traction – until a century ago when a little German camera from a optical house specializing in microscopes introduced the Leica … Continue reading →

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so who needs slow speeds anyway?

Posted on November 3, 2025 by Robert

Toronto. … Besides, the IIf Leica was less expensive to buy than a IIIf. This cosmetically clean c1951 black dial IIf Leica with the correct 5cm f/2 collapsible Summitar lens is lot 201 at next Sunday’s PHSC Museum Auction. The … Continue reading →

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better than pearl …

Posted on October 8, 2025 by Robert

Toronto. A young Peter Stackpole shot the construction of the Bay Bridge  (to Oakland) and the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco with his Leica A – the first professional quality and successfully marketed miniature camera. The last edition of … Continue reading →

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amazing Oskar

Posted on October 6, 2025 by Robert

Toronto. In a recent Digital Camera World article, it was announced that Leica Camera AG had its best  (in revenue) year ever – this on the 100th anniversary of the first sale of Leicas ever. Like many firms in Europe, … Continue reading →

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winding it up

Posted on September 9, 2025 by Robert

Toronto. Film had a great run in photography, lasting over a century from Eastman’s roll film for his pivotal ‘Kodak” camera in the late 1880s to the APS (Advanced Photo System) early in the 1990s that drifted into early this … Continue reading →

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July 2025 PHSC News issue 25-7

Posted on August 3, 2025 by Robert

Toronto. Well Patrick did it again! This issue is a real gob smacker! Click on the icon of the cover at left to snag a copy.  This is the seventh in an eye-appealing series of monthly newsletters by  Patrick Gunn … Continue reading →

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a century already?

Posted on July 3, 2025 by Robert

Toronto. Wow! Leica has been around for a century now. It seems like only yesterday that the little camera saved a German optical house and revolutionized photography – all after WW1 ended. The camera, formally introduced to the world in … Continue reading →

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when Leitz made Leicas and lenses in Midland

Posted on June 16, 2025 by Robert

Toronto. Post ww2 Leitz decided to diversify their camera and lens production by adding a plant outside Germany. According to my friend, the late Bill Belier, the Canadian distributor, Walter Carveth, suggested Canada for the new plant  and in particular … Continue reading →

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