LEICA visit to Wetzlar Germany: Last Call

[giganova]

Is it just me? I'm feeling a bit uneasy seeing all these luxurious buildings, rooms, furniture, exhibitions, statues, etc, realizing that we Leica customers finance all that.

 

[raid]

Yes, it is just you.

 

[mnutzer]

Two perhaps somewhat surreal influenced photos from the Leitz Park named 'Lecture' and 'Question':

Greetings

 

[robert blu]

A few snaps taken with the Leica x1 during the visit at Leitz Park

Raid, who wonderfully organized the event and his family

A few cameras on display in front of the window to the assembly facility

Assembly a lens

Explaining lenses, a little bit of theory

 

[raid]

I am glad to see others post images from the visit here.

 

[mnutzer]

Rain clouds darken Café Leitz, where we enjoyed coffee and pastries inside.

Greetings

 

[raid]

Mnutzer, that's a great one of Raid and his family. It's really good to see them all in one shot, and in such an interesting pose.

I have very few photos with my family, so I am glad to see such photos here!

 

[mnutzer]

Peter Karbe refers on Max Berek's optical principles in context to Leica's history.

- All photos of the meeting at Leitz-Park have been taken by Leica M 8.2 and Summilux 35mm preasph. -

Greetings

 

[alistair.o]

Thanks for the thread and pictures.

PS: Raid, you strike quite a pose 😀

 

[raid]

I do what I manage to do! In the end, we had a fruitful visit that everybody in our small RFF group enjoyed.

 

[raid]

Hello Helen,
It was "Grand" indeed. Having three Leica executives give use personal audiences, plus having a professional doing the arrangements for us with the three people who met with us was very special. I did not give Leica my M9 to check out. It works well and the sensor is clean. I wanted my M9 to take photos at Leica.

 

[robert blu]

It was a pleasure to meet other RFF photo enthusiast!

the enthusiast photographer!

Simo entertaining "the photographer's" daughters 🙂

Production area

 

[raid]

This is a nice mini tour, Robert. Thank you. I seem to have been quite happy looking in one of your images!

 

[robert blu]

After the visit...clouds over Wetzlar 🙂

M7, 50 cron, delta 100

 

[mnutzer]

Another three photos taken during our visit at Leitz-Park:

Greetings

 

[mnutzer]

From Peter Karbe's lecture: For those who want to recalculate the optical values of their Elmars - of course without computers ...🙂

Greetings

 

[mnutzer]

Another photo taken in the showroom and one again from the production.

Greetings

 

[raid]

Thanks for posting these additional photos from our visit to Leica.

 

[mcfingon]

I'm going to be in Leitz-Park Wetzlar on Monday 4 September 2017 Raid. Should I book a guided tour or just look for myself?

 

[pechelman]

i went this past april. I highly recommend you arrange a tour beforehand.

On occasion, especially when the tours get large, they dont take you very many places, but when the group is smaller, you get to see a good bit of the building and manufacturing areas. Our tour guide (Roland) was especially amazing and took us to places normally skipped since our group was about ~10 people.