Leica Camera prides itself on its innovative, sustainable, and nearly perfect lenses, and the high quality found in the German industrial process is evident in Leica products. The current name is a combination of two words: the first three letters of "Leitz" and the first two letters of "camera." Today, the company mostly sells digital microscope cameras and sports optics like binoculars, monoculars, riflescopes, and rangefinders. Eventually, the company changed its name to Leica in 1986 due to the popularity of the name. At this time, Ernst Leitz Wetzlar GmbH and Wild Heerbrugg combined to create the Wild Leitz Group. Wild Heerbrugg bought out the Leitz Wetzlar Company in 1974 but allowed Leitz to continue to manufacture compound microscopes until the last Leitz relative left the company in 1986. With this increased competition, many microscope manufacturers, including Ernst Leitz Wetzlar microscopes, merged with other companies. Then in the 1970s, the competition in the microscope industry increased due to many Japanese microscope manufacturers producing high-quality and affordable microscopes. His three sons took over the company after him, and in 1952, Gunther Leitz started making Leica cameras. Microscope production was halted during the war, and Leitz reentered the microscopy market after the war ended. In 1920, Ernst Leitz II took over the company. Max Berek was hired and designed the first Leitz camera lens leading to microscope cameras becoming a top-selling product by 1924. By the 20th century, the Leitz company was manufacturing the modern style of microscopes and microscope stands. After 1885, Leitz started manufacturing polarizing microscopes. When Ernst Leitz took over the company in 1869, he renamed it the Optical Institute of Ernst Leitz and eventually increased the production of Ernst Leitz microscopes. In 1865, Ernst Leitz joined the Optical Institute as a partner. The company first produced telescopes and later started to manufacture microscopes. History of Ernst Leitz Wetzlar MicroscopesĪs early as 1849, Karl Kellner formed the Optical Institute in Wetzlar, Germany. These antique Ernst Leitz Wetzlar microscopes are available with most of their original parts and are not covered under warranty. Most are still branded with their original Ernst Leitz Wetzlar microscope serial numbers from production. Many of the vintage Ernst Leitz Wetzlar microscopes for sale featured on our website are believed to have been manufactured as early as 1925. Long before Ernst Leitz Wetzlar changed its name to Leica Microsystems, the company produced high-quality Ernst Leitz Wetzlar microscopes during the last few decades of the 19th century into the early 20th century.
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