Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Oscar Barnack died on the 16th of January 1936, the last camera design he worked on was the IIIa. Professor Max Berek was responsible for the design (based on other people's earlier work of course) of all the Leitz camera lenses until his death on the 15th of October 1949. John Collier ref: Leica, The First Seventy Years, G. Rogliatti > From: Rich Lahrson <tripspud@wenet.net> > > When did Oscar Barnak die? What was the last model of the Leica > that he saw? What was the last model of Leica that he had designed? > What part in the lens line up of the era did he design? >