Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Born in 1879 near Berlin, Oscar went to Wetzlar in 1911 at the invitation of Ernst Leitz and accepted employment with the company now known as Leica. Oskar Barnack is credited as being the inventor of the Leica camera and consequently the 35mm camera in 1913. The pre-cursor to all 35mm cameras of today. [from the KBCamera website] That makes it 125. Jeffery Smith New Orleans, LA -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Feli di Giorgio Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 12:46 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Digilux digressions and dioramas part II, the beginning THIS right here is one of the main reasons why I subscribe to the LUG. ;-) Feli On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 20:07, Mark Rabiner wrote: > The Oscar Barnack tie-ins throws me. > We are commemorating his birthday. > Not death day or day he invented the Leica. > > But he wasn't born in 1904 otherwise he would have been 9 when he came out > with the first UR prototype. Just like Mozart writing his first symphony! > Big deal! > > But Barnack was not a prodigy type from what I can tell. > > So what we are looking at is the 125th birthday of Barnack!! > Which would make that 1879. > Which by the way is a year not a day. > Nowhere can I find what his birthday was. Just year. > > Anyway I think 100 is a nice round number. > So is 200 > So is maybe 50. Your golden wedding anniversary. > Maybe on a stretch 150. > But 125? > > I've got to get out my pocket calculator to find out when Oscar was born. > > I think they should have come up with another nice number. > Which added or multiplied up to be 2004. > And was much ROUNDER! > > > Mark Rabiner > Photography > Portland Oregon > http://rabinergroup.com/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- Feli di Giorgio Visual Effects Supervisor "Hostage" creocollective - feli@creocollective.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information