The headquarters of Leica Camera Company is located in that city in Germany.

Leica is headquartered in the suburb of Wetzlar, with the specific address of Am Leitz-Park 5 35578 Wetzlar, which can be reached within 45 minutes from Frankfurt. You can also get off at Giessen, take the bus 1 1 at the railway station and go directly to Leitz-Park. When I arrived at the headquarters, I saw two connected circular buildings, which looked like two lenses from a distance, with the bright red Leica logo on them.

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The history of Leica cameras began when1911oskar barnack became the research director of Leitz. Oskar barnack is a talented mechanical engineer and an avid photographer. He likes to take pictures with a heavy camera and tripod, and he prefers to shoot short films with a movie machine.

At that time, he was addicted to the film machine, so he was familiar with the 35 mm film used for making movies. In order to be portable, he specially designed a small camera that can shoot 24x36mm film using 35mm film as a reference when shooting film exposure.

I didn't expect the film taken by this camera to have a good effect after amplification. And its lightness and dexterity made him fondle admiringly. So, he began to consider developing a new generation of cameras that are easy to carry. And this one uses a 42 mm lens. With a shutter speed of L/l/40s, a "photometer" that can take 40 negatives became the first 135 camera in the world.

At that time, there was no brand for cameras. Later, people called it "Ul-Leica". In fact, oskar barnack was not the first person who thought of making a small practical camera with 35mm perforated film, but he was a mechanical engineer. He was lucky to find a job in a company that could give full play to his talents. This is the difference between him and those people.

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