Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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