Friday, 27 October 2017

35-mm CAMERA

BARNACK USHERS IN THE AGE OF PHOTOJOURNALISMS WITH A HIGH RESPONSIVE CAMERA
     World war I put a halt to Barnack’s progress, and it was not until 1925 that leica 1 camera was introduced (the name standing for Leitz camera). According to one historian, old school photographers regarded the new camera as toy like, but over the next seven years almost 60,000 of them were sold.

  Not everyone has their own award name after them. The Oskar Barnack award, given annually to photo journalists, was initiated in 1979 to mark the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the man who invented the 35-mm still camera. Barnack (1879-1936) had the idea for it back in 1905, but it was not until 1913-1914, while he was working as a head development at the German camera company Leitz, in Wetzlar, Hesse, that he was able to transform his idea into reality
  
  Tradition heavy plate cameras were cumbersome to use and required significant preparation before each shot. It was impossible to take a “quick snap” of anything. Barnack’s camera was a tough metal box that could fit in a jacket packet and used a new kind of film, adaptor from Thomas Edison’s 35-mm cine film. In 1914 Barnack took picture of the Soldiers who had just put up the imperial order for mobilization. This was new kind of picture spontaneous and capturing a new camera film and stretched his arms out. The length of the film between his arms contained thirty six frames, and this has been the number of negatives on a standards 35-mm roll of film ever since.

The first commercial available 35-mm camera was the Leica I, manufactured by Leitz of Germany in 1925.

This 1937 advertisement shows the model of the Leica III series, which include an integrated rangefinder.

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