Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/12/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:16 PM 12/4/2007, amr3@uwm.edu wrote: >Quoting Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net>: > >> The Zeppelin company designed 130 rigid airships >> (GRAF ZEPPELIN II ws LZ-130) but ten or so of these were never built. >...................................................................... >................................................................... >Speaking of zeppelins, the original Graf was featured in at least one Leica ad, >in "Photo Era Magazine", 1930, mentioning various flights and expeditions that >chose Leica cameras. This one is reprinted on page 18 of the book "Leica Ads". > >I think I've seen a photo of Dr. Eckener with a Leica, and if I'm >remembering >wrong, I wouldn't be surprised if he had one. Alan Are you certain of this? Graf von Zeppelin died in 1917 long before series production of the Leica camera commenced. My copy of LEICA ADS still hasn't surfaced, so I cannot check your kind reference directly. Oscar Barnack was a Zeppelin fan, and took a jaunt over Wetzlar in SWABIA in the summer of 1914. A picture he took with one of the ur-Leicas on that flight was published in a Leica advert thirty years ago though Solms now claims to have no knowledge of the picture or, for that matter, of the brochure. Hugo Eckener was a Leica user and was one of the few folks ever gifted twice with a gift camera by the Leitz factory. He was an occasional guest of Ernst Leitz II. Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!