Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:02 PM 5/11/98 -0400, you wrote: >By that time there were at least a dozen other 35mm cameras available. The >success of the Leica was attributed by contemporary photographic writers, not >only to its small size and to the precision of its construction, but to its >relatively high price which established it as a "prestige" item among both >photographers and people of fashion. Obviously the concept of negative price >elasticity was as prevalent in the flapper era as it is now. >"It costs more but I'm worth it!" That's not half the story. It was photographers who found the Leica to be the best tool around for candid photography that made it's fame. And the picture magazines in Berlin and then London, and the New York. The Leica created that new genre of photography. Not any other. The rest fell in behind, and then overtook them. ========= Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO They have what is rare in still photography - the mobility of film, motion, evanescence, fluidity...your camera has a thousand eyes which are directed by love and feeling. - -Anias Nin