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In 1947 he joined Ernst Leitz at Wetzlar as a lens designer, working with Max Berek . At the same time he studied in Giessen University. Later he obtained a bachelor's degree in Physics and then a Ph.D. (summa cum laude) in 1979. In 1952 Ernst Leitz decided to establish Ernst Leitz Canada at Midland, Ontario. Mandler was one of the team members ...
An ELCAN C79 3.4x28 sight. Raytheon ELCAN Optical Technologies, also simply ELCAN (Ernst Leitz CANada), [1] is a Canadian optics and electronics manufacturing company owned by American defense contractor RTX Corporation, currently based in Midland, Ontario.
Ernst Leitz II (1 March 1871 – 15 June 1956) was a German business person and humanitarian. He was the second head of the optics company now known as Leica Camera and organized the Leica Freedom Train to allow people, most of whom were Jewish, to escape from Germany during Nazi times .
In 1952, Günther Leitz decided to establish Ernst Leitz Canada at Midland, Ontario. Post-war models bear the initials DBP, standing for Deutsches Bundespatent (Federal German Patent), instead of the DRP (Deutsches Reich patent) found on pre-war models. A number of camera companies have built models based on the Leica rangefinder design.
Ernst Leitz died in July 1920, and the leadership of the company passed to his son, Ernst Leitz II. Around 1920, Leitz employed around 1400 people, and by 1956, 6000. In 1924 Ernst Leitz II decided that in spite of the weak economy, the apparatus designed by his employee Oskar Barnack should enter serial production.
Ernst Leitz II (1871–1956), Industrialist and director of the Leitz Camera company (later Leica). Elsie Kuehn-Leitz (1903–1985), daughter of Ernst Leitz II. The Leica Freedom Train was a rescue effort in which hundreds of Jews were smuggled out of Nazi Germany before the Holocaust by Ernst Leitz II of the Leica Camera company, and his ...
Currently, the annual cap is 65,000 new H-1B visas and an additional 20,000 for foreign professionals who graduate with a master’s degree or higher from a US university. That hasn't changed ...
The Leica M2 is a 35 mm rangefinder camera by Ernst Leitz GmbH of Wetzlar, Germany, introduced in 1957.Around 82,000 M2s were produced between 1957 and 1968. Around 1500 M2s were produced by Ernst Leitz Canada, but most of these are not marked as such on the top plate.