Les folies de Leitz?
Posted by janvangelderen on January 10, 2007
Did not believe my eyes on seeing this rather frivolous trademark on a piece of junk which was sold to me as a genuine Leitz. Of course it is not. It is a fake brought on the market by some workshop which took people for a ride. The funny thing is that what was undamaged on the instrument showed a good piece of instrument makers skill. So why? Anybody out there who can put things in a different way, let him or her speak.
We could never blame Leitz for being frivolous. Once they came near and that was in a pr-picture from a lady dancing on a stand. That was in 1988. And contrary to popular believe (www.Spijkermann.com) the original Leitz logo from 1913 is not derived from the design of a photographic objective, but from the section plane of their bicentric mirror condensor for darkfield. The Leica camera was introduced on the Leipziger Messe in 1925.
