Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/15

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Subject: [Leica] Digilux digressions and dioramas part II, the beginning
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Wed Sep 15 19:19:19 2004
References: <006b01c49b4b$ed38c670$5540e344@newukolbqveo9i> <p05111002bd6e85733c93@[192.168.102.100]>
 
At 8:50 AM +0900 9/16/04, Karen Nakamura wrote:
>>Born in 1879 near Berlin, Oscar went to Wetzlar in 1911 at the
>>invitation of Ernst Leitz and accepted employment with the company now
>>known as Leica.  Oskar Barnack is credited as being the inventor of the
>>Leica camera and consequently the 35mm camera in 1913.  The pre-cursor
>>to all 35mm cameras of today.
>>
>>[from the KBCamera website]
>
>That's not quite accurate. There were other still film cameras that 
>were experimenting with 35mm motion picture stock at the time.
>
>He did, however, standardize on the 24x36 frame as well as the 
>approximately 36 exposure film length that we use now.
>
>Karen
>

As he said, the precursor to all 35mm cameras of today. The others 
didn't make it.

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In reply to: Message from jls at runbox.com (Jeffery Smith) ([Leica] Digilux digressions and dioramas part II, the beginning)
Message from mail at gpsy.com (Karen Nakamura) ([Leica] Digilux digressions and dioramas part II, the beginning)