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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 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 ...
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.
Walter Mandler (10 May 1922 – 21 April 2005) was a lens designer of Ernst Leitz Canada (Leica Camera) in Midland, Ontario. Mandler is credited with the design of more than 45 Leica lenses for the Leica rangefinder cameras and Leica SLR cameras.
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.
Ernst Leitz Canada Elmarit R19/2.8. Leica 19 mm f /2.8 Elmarit-R 1st version; Leica 19 mm f /2.8 Elmarit-R 2nd version – 1990; Leica 21 mm f /4.0 Super-Angulon-R – 1968–1992 (Schneider-Kreuznach design) Leica 21 mm f /3.4 Super-Angulon-R – 1968 (Schneider-Kreuznach design) Leica 24 mm f /2.8 Elmarit-R – 1970 (Minolta design and glass ...