Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/08/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm reading in the very cool book I'm reading now Camera: A History of Photography from Daguerreotype to Digital by Todd Gustavson, George Eastman House Having just hit the Leica section before that most of it dealing with cameras made in the turn of the century in Paris and London. Dresden and Scotland. A bit of a change from the Japan, Thailand and Germany I'm used to. So its the Leica section and other camera companies don't even have sections in this book not even Kodak and he's talking about Barnack how he got the first prototype in 1913. And I'm doing the math as its 2013 the year we're in now. And I'm seeing very round numbers! I look at my Leica camera map on the wall I got when the M8.2 came out and it says: Leica Family Tree. 1914- 2008 And a hundred tiny cameras all in a nice tree grid. Starting at the bottom with the UR Leica 1914. So in a few months its going to be 2014. Are people compiling fireworks? Is someone making a float? 100 is a very round number and I'd think we should be planning on a celebration am I not paying attention or is nothing going on? I though I was paying attention. And I think 2014 is going to be a very good year for Leica. The Todd Gustavson, George Eastman House history coffee table books are very well done. You think you're learning about cameras but you are learning about photography. -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/