Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/06

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Resurgence of B&W
From: john <bosjohn@mediaone.net>
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 17:48:48 +0100

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