Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/08/17

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Subject: [Leica] 100 years of Leica- a very round number.
From: jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 17:38:13 -0500
References: <CE3572B6.F285%mark@rabinergroup.com>

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/
> 
> 
> 
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