About the Author

For fifty years now, Günter Osterloh has been collecting Leica M cameras while working for Leitz and Leica. As product manager and as 'dean' of the Leica Academy, he got to know nearly all the individuals who contributed to the creation of the Leica M system. He is also in charge of the Leica archive in Germany and is currently working on a 15-metre-long exhibiton 'wall' which shows the history of the Leica factory at their headquarters in Wetzlar, Germany.