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Leica
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English
Etymology
A portmanteau of the surname of Ernst Leitz I (the company's founder) and camera.
Noun
en photography A make of camera.
en 1952 February H. C. Casserley Permanent Wayfarings Railway Magazine 78 Every photographer of experience has his own theories and methods of working, but for the last 14 years I have used a Leica exclusively, and have found it best adapted to the somewhat exacting demands of railway photography, which is by no means an easy branch of the art.
Derived terms
en Leica reel
Romanian
Etymology
From ro leică.
Proper noun
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