Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/12/27

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Subject: [Leica] The Camera
From: lrzeitlin at aol.com (lrzeitlin at aol.com)
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 15:15:36 -0500
 
        When I opened my holiday presents I discovered that I received a 
wonderful gift. It was a book,"The Camera - A history of photography from 
Daguerrotype to Digital" by Todd Gustavson, technical curator of the George 
Eastman museum. It contains large glossy photographs of just about every 
camera from Fox Talbot's camera obscura to the Leica M8 plus many historic 
photographs taken by them. The book is a massive tome of 360 heavy glossy 
pages, 12" x 10" in size, guaranteed to challenge any coffee table. I was 
very impressed with the book and was happy to identify some of the many 
cameras pictured that I had owned at one time or another..
        My grand daughter later confessed that she had bought the book at 
Barnes and Noble at the sale price of $14.95 USD. A real bargain!. B&N may 
still have copies at the sale price. If any of you want a copy it is ISBN 
978-1-4351-5324-0.
        I highly recommend it.


Larry Z
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