I have a 1938 Leica lllb . After all that time, it`s still virtually "mint", and still takes outstanding photographs. Yay for Oskar!

A giant of humanity!

Absolutely wonderful. I am delighted to learn about this genius.

So lucky this company survived. The most compact full Format camera (M series) along with world famous lenses and unsurpassed mechanical quality. For me this means: pure photography in a nutshell. A lot to say. We got lucky that Ernst Leitz II had the courage to build this legend, especially in this uncertain times.

My 1934 Barnack Leica ii is still working perfectly as well as a later iic, iiic & iiif. my favorite cameras for film photography.

What an awesome history of the Legend!

In one of the comments can be read when the Nikon F came, "the rangefinder was sort of ended"

Thanks for this. I've a 1968 M4. Love it. Flawless!

Got a 20 mm Aus Jena screw mount back in the 70's, superb to put it mildly.

I just bought a iif in the year of 2020. can't stop using it ; )

legendary camera nothing can exist infront of it

Just like today's digital camera and technology designers have created the tools that will define the 21st century, 100 years ago Oskar Barnack was one of the visionaries who created a tool that helped define the 20th. The Leica camera made the immediate permanent and laid the groundwork for the ease and ubiquity of picture making that we enjoy today. The parallels with the transition from analog to digital are striking- according to this excellent short film produced by Leica, older photographers were slow to embrace the potential of Barnack's tiny "Lilliput Camera". But younger photographers were all over it. As a result, Capa, Cartier-Bresson, Solomon, Eisenstadt, et al did their thing and moved the medium into the modern age.

I use a leica iiif and and an elmar 5cm f3.5 daily...

Goooood~~~

Beautiful documentary, I watched to research for a presentation I am doing on the invention of the Leica I :D

I love the portrait. To me, my Leicaflexes are a sort of view into Leica in flux between Rangefinders and SLRs... and while the Leicaflex line did cause Leica to pay a heavy price (and enter into a relationship with Minolta), there is NOTHING Like shooting with a Leicaflex... it's RAW and then some.

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more videos like this and fewer partner cameras and better prices!

Habt ihr dieses ganze Video auch in deutsch?

What about the 35mm film cassette? Did he invent that as well?