Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I believe that Mark de Paola, director of the film "One Camera, One Life" about Leitz in WWII, is a sometime or former LUGger. I'm sure I encountered him here some time ago and he's sent me a DVD of an early version of his film. Here's another intriguing detail for those who are fascinated by the relationship between Leitz and Jews: Oskar Barnack, inventor of the original Leica, was inspired by (among others) a camera called the Levy-Roth Minigraph, 18 x 24mm, made at Berlin and sold ca. 1915 by a firm owned by Jews. Loyalty is the better part of gratitude. EL