The Leica Freedom Train was not a physical coal or steam engine, but the monumental effort of the Leitz family. This is how they and the Leica camera company saved hundreds of Jews from persecution at the hands of the Nazis.
A camera store in Germany has teamed up with a specialist to create and sell a series of limited edition, non-functional, "copper-plated" Leica rangefinders as art pieces that'll class up your mantlepiece. Though we're not sure why the camera store decided to put "copper-plated" in quotes...
In the annals of photography, few people have made the kind of impact that Oskar Barnack can claim. While working for Leitz, then a microscope manufacturer, the master entineer and photography enthusiast invented the original Ur-Leica: a camera that would change the world.