Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Resurgence of B&W
From: Ed Buziak <ed.buziak@camera-and-darkroom.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 07:11:10 +0000

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

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>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