Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/08/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Certainly Leica will produce appropriately priced, engraved and boxed Hundert Jahre Kameras. On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > A book which is as intelligent as it is gorgeous, > This Todd Gustavson fella is THE guy. Understands the full context of the > camera or image he is writing about. Or photographer or photo process. > > I also read and own his 500 Cameras: 170 Years of Photographic Innovation > which began my new perspective on how I view this whole photography thing. > Also through the George Eastman House as publisher. Whom I think he works > for. > > > On 8/17/13 6:38 PM, "Jefffery Smith" <jsmith342 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > And reasonably priced on Amazon.com > > > > Jeffery > > > > On Aug 17, 2013, at 5:34 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > > wrote: > > > >> I'm reading in the very cool book I'm reading now > >> Camera: A History of Photography from Daguerreotype to Digital > >> by Todd Gustavson, George Eastman House > >> Having just hit the Leica section before that most of it dealing with > >> cameras made in the turn of the century in Paris and London. Dresden and > >> Scotland. > >> A bit of a change from the Japan, Thailand and Germany I'm used to. > >> So its the Leica section and other camera companies don't even have > sections > >> in this book not even Kodak and he's talking about Barnack how he got > the > >> first prototype in 1913. And I'm doing the math as its 2013 the year > we're > >> in now. And I'm seeing very round numbers! I look at my Leica camera > map on > >> the wall I got when the M8.2 came out and it says: > >> Leica Family Tree. > >> 1914- 2008 > >> And a hundred tiny cameras all in a nice tree grid. Starting at the > bottom > >> with the UR Leica 1914. > >> > >> So in a few months its going to be 2014. > >> Are people compiling fireworks? > >> Is someone making a float? > >> 100 is a very round number and I'd think we should be planning on a > >> celebration am I not paying attention or is nothing going on? I though > I was > >> paying attention. > >> And I think 2014 is going to be a very good year for Leica. > >> > >> The Todd Gustavson, George Eastman House history coffee table books are > very > >> well done. You think you're learning about cameras but you are learning > >> about photography. > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Mark William Rabiner > >> Photographer > >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > -- > Mark William Rabiner > Photographer > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana 1714 Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase USA