Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/08/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And reasonably priced on Amazon.com Jeffery On Aug 17, 2013, at 5:34 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > 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/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information