PetaPixel The History of Leica vs Zeiss and the Battle of the Rangefinders


A comic-style image with two vintage cameras facing off against each other, separated by a VS in the center. The camera on the left has a speech bubble saying Grr! and the one on the right says #@!. The background is bright red and yellow with black lines.

For several decades, there were two big names -- both of which happened to be German -- in the 35mm camera world that stood like skyscrapers among all companies. You’ve undoubtedly heard of both of them: Carl Zeiss and Leitz Camera, more commonly known as Zeiss and Leica.

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