----- Original Message -----
From: "William Sommerwerck" <williams@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus group" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, 14 January, 2003 10:12 AM
Subject: [OM] Olympus vs. L**c*
> Your instructor could start by getting his facts straight.
>
> Leitz did not "invent" 35mm photography. Cameras using scraps of movie
film
> had been around since the end of the 19th century. Leitz's contribution
was
> introducing the double-frame format (what we would call "full-frame") and
> putting a high-quality lens on these cameras.
I think it fair to say that Oskar Barnarck's Ur-Leica from 1913 was the
first 35mm camera per se. He took 18mm x 24mm film, doubled the format size
to 36mm x 24mm, created a light box, installed a lens and called his
creation a LEItz CAmera. Rob Jackson's original observation about his
instructor opining that Leitz invented 35mm photography as we know it today
is essentially true. A pedant might fuss over the choice of words but for
all intents and purposes Barnarck's creation did mark the beginning of 35mm
cameras as we know them today.
jh
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