Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark and Dan K, Strange indeed... I looked in my files and in Jason Schneider's PopPhoto "The Camera Collector" column dated April '92 (page 26, 28 and 150 - don't ya just lurve their pagination methods <s>) and there it is... "What's the greatest user-collectible SLR of all time? Hint: It begins with an "N" and these days it's almost a bargain" Yup folks... the venerable "F"... and he states in the article that it is "... one of my very favorite post-WW II cameras..." Ed Buziak / Publisher Camera & Darkroom magazine ed.buziak@camera-and-darkroom.co.uk http://www.camera-and-darkroom.co.uk - ---------- >From: john <bosjohn@mediaone.net> >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Re: [Leica] Resurgence of B&W >Date: Thu, Apr 6, 2000, 4:48 pm > >Mark Rabiner wrote: >> >> Frank Filippone wrote: >> > >> > This is an un-abashed recommendation to Ed Buziak's magazine: Camera and >> > Darkroom. I have been getting Popular and Modern for 35 years. The >> > articles are stale and repeating. ><Snip> >> > Ed: Thanks for a great magazine. >> > >> > Frank Filippone >> >> This March issue of Popular Photography has an article in it by Jason Schneider: >> "The 10 most important cameras of the 20th century"! I love this great articles >> more than most even of what Jason Schneider writes! >> 1900 Brownie Camera original Eastman Kodak (one dollar) >> 1924 Ermanox, as hand held by Erich Salomon >> 1925 LEICA A need we say more! >> 1929 Rolleiflex not the first but best twin lens reflex! >> 1933 Super Kodak Six-20, first production automatic exposure (selenium) control >> 1948 Polaroid 95, the first successful Polaroid >> 1948 Hasselblad 1600 F, with 80mm f2.8 Kodak Ektar "a case study in intelligent >> product development" >> 1949 Contax X first successful eye level pentaprism 35mm SLR >> 1977 Konica C35 AF, first point and shoot >> 1984 Minolta Maxxum 7000 first full system AF SLR with sensors and drive >> mechanism built into the body, >> wasn't someone just asking about the Maxxum? >> What other camera came out that year? >> You could say Pop Photo was just a gadget mag but you'd be wrong. >> Rothchild, Goldberg, Cora Wright Kennedy, Bill Pierce... >> my 60's influences, the magazine that got me into photography! >> Although this was my first issue in a year or two!! >> Mark Rabiner >How did he miss the Nikon F, perhaps the most ubiquitous slr in history. >John shick