My life with the leica walther benser. Available to purchase for immediate download. Below is an extract from the manual converted to text for a quick impression on the content. My life with the leica walther benserWalther BenserAfter six years at secondary school my
ambition was to do something in the
movies; instead I ended up as a tech-
nical/commercial apprentice with Leitz
in Wetzlar. The year was 1929 and who
knows, if I had not had the opportunity
of talking to Oskar Barnack, I might
not have stayed. He inspired me with
enthusiasm for the new Leica and its
promising future. In this book I have
recorded my subsequent 60 years of
enjoyment with the Leica.
Personalities around the Leica such as
Ernst Leitz II, Oskar Barnack, Henri
Dumur, Paul Wolfi', Heinrich Stockler
and Julius Behnke come to life again
through Walther Bensers tales and
recollections and are presented to us in
a new light.