Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The Germans, being shutterbugs, photodocumented all of their activites during the war. I suspect many images were destroyed as the allies approached but new photos turn up all the time. Bob --- Feli <feli2@earthlink.net> wrote: > > This is a bit of a dumb (and newbie) question, but > were Leica cameras > > around during the second world war? Or did they > arrive afterwards? For > > some reason I think of the VW beetle and the Leica > camera as arriving > > around the same time. Am I incorrect? > > thanks, > > chris > > Leica pretty much invented the 135 (35mm) format we > use today. The > first Leica > was produced in 1925, prototypes date back to 1911. > The concept was the > idea of Oskar > Barnack. > > Patton had a Leica III. > > > feli > > On May 27, 2005, at 6:21 AM, cwoods wrote: > > > > ________________________________________________________ > feli2@earthlink.net 2 + 2 = 4 > www.elanphotos.com > > > no archive > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for > more information > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com