Meanings
nounLeica (plural Leicas)
plural Leicas
- artsA make of camera.
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.
1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, in Railway Magazine, page 78
Origin
A portmanteau of the surname of Ernst Leitz I (the company's founder) and camera.
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