Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 02:49 PM 12/16/01 -0800, Mark Rabiner wrote: >Oskar Barnack had his first Leica prototypes in 1914. >Using two movie frames per shot on 35mm movie film: double frame as we >do now 24x36mm. >Took it on a trip that year to the USA in May with Ernst Leitz II and >also got the patent on it that month. It's principle features. I believe the second prototype UR-Leica went to the US with Ernst Leitz II in 1914. I don't recall that Oscar went with him -- we have pictures he took late that summer, while the Boss's Son was in Amurca, as they call it in Oregon. To my relatively certain knowledge, Oscar never left Germany. A true native son, as Mark Rabiner might have said. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html