[Leica] Camera of the Century

["Rod Fleming" <rodfleming@sol.co.uk>]

Hi

What an interesting selection.

But what was the camera that introduced photography to the masses, made it a
worldwide passion and ensured that every family had their own dog-eared
bundles of snaps of Auntie Ida at the beach? What was the camera that built
a mass market that allowed people like us to benefit from silly-cheap prices
for film, materials, processing, and (Leica excepted) even the cameras
themselves?

Surely this camera, which transformed photography from the pastime of
nutcases in basements and the craft of professional smudgers with yellow
fingers and bad backs into a part of the everyday lives of folks all over
the globe should rate at least a mention?

Was it the Leica- what, at that price? Rolleiflex- the same. Nikon- well the
F was and is great, but a limited market professional's piece. Canon?
Please...... Pentax- little beauts, but still, along with all the other very
worthy nominations, for people already turned on to photography.

So what was the camera that turned the world on to snapping? And who made
it?

Ladies and ge'mun, I give you the camera that made photography one of the
biggest selling hobbies on the planet, made it the Pastime of the Century,
and turned it into a billion-dollar industry-  I give you the Camera of The
Century............



Taa Daa..........



The Kodak Box Brownie.

:-))

Cheers


Rod