Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/03/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Barnack worked at Zeiss and then at ICA prior to going to Leitz. He was a >production foreman which entitled him to executive benefits, including >health insurance. Because he suffered from asthma, however, the company >would not extend health insurance coverage to him, to his fiscal detriment, >as he required pretty extensive medical care. > >Ernst Leitz heard of this and visited Barnack. The one thing Barnack >requested was that Leitz bear his medical bills, and this was agreed to >readily, even though Leitz did NOT have any sort of company health-care >plan. So Barnack moved to Wetzlar and began work on what would be that >famed bearer-of-an-accessory-shoe, the 'ur-Leica'. > >This is, of course, covered in (ah-HEM), Barringer & Small, THE ZEISS >COMPENDIUM, Hove, 1995. Marc, Actually, your book is where I had read about this, originally. It's just when I tried to remember where, I didn't consider a book on 1939+ Zeiss cameras! BTW, although I don't collect Zeiss cameras, I have always been interested in them, and your book makes sense of the bewildering collection of camera systems that they made. I had never understood the relationships of the various models and systems before. - - Paul