Leica LTM 35mm Photography - an American, NOT Leica Invention!

[Ambro51]

Well. Here we go, taking 35mm cameras back to 1900! Maybe... It’s a Danish invention! built by Vilhelm Pacht and Jacob Earlhammer. Also on note, the Italian site is incorrect on Jens Poal Andersen’s 35mm Cameras dating to 1906. Extant letters prove they were made between 1917 and 1924. Because of the error on the Italian site, this misinformation has spread through the web. I have notified him and given him references but so far this inaccuracy remains. https://www.kulturarv.dk/mussam/VisGenstand.action?genstandId=706025

 

[MarcoIIIc]

35mm Photography - an American, NOT Leica Invention!

This is what I found about Jens Poul Andersen of Denmark with the first 35mm camera.
http://corsopolaris.net/supercameras/early/early_135.html

There were a number of 35mm still cameras using perforated movie film prior to the Leica. The first patent for one was issued to Leo, Audobard and Baradat in England in 1908. The first full scale production camera was the Homeos, a stereo camera, produced by Jules Richard in 1913. It took stereo pairs, 18x24 mm, with two Tessar lenses. It was sold until 1920. The first 35mm big seller was the American Tourist Multiple, also appearing in 1913. The camera cost $175 in 1913. By today's standards that's the equal of a $3000 Leica. The first camera to take full frame 24x36mm exposures seems to be the Simplex, introduced in the U.S. in 1914. It took either 800 half frame or 400 full frame shots on 50 ft. rolls. The Minigraph, by Levy- Roth of Berlin, another half frame small camera was sold in Germany in 1915. The patent for the Debrie Sept camera, a combination 35mm still and movie camera was issued in 1918, but was not marketed until 1922. Finally the Furet camera, made and sold in France in 1923 took full frame 24x36mm negatives and was the first cheap small 35mm camera to look vaguely like today's models. Although Oskar Barnack designed his prototype camera around 1913, the first experimental production run of ur-Leicas (Serial No. 100 to 130) did not take place until 1923.

Jens Poul Andersen 35 mm camera - 1905 This one of the four 35 mm cameras built in 1905 by Jens Poul Andersen in Nellerod, Denmark: The simple lens on the 1905 Andersen 35 mm camera consists of two plano-convex lens elements mounted in a brass barrel with provision for four fixed aperture settings of f/5, f/8, f/10 and f/15. The guillotine shutter provides a single shutter speed of 1/100 sec. The camera body is made of mahogany wood and has the shape of a flat box (somewhat like a brick) with the dimensions of 208 x 45 x 85 mm. The camera weighs 500 grams. It accepts a maximun of 20 m of perforated 35 mm film, enough for apprximately 300 exposures. The format is 24 x 60 mm.

Interestingly enough I am the person who exchanged the Simplex Multi-exposure, with the owner of the forum.

I found it (or at least what was left of it) at an Auction in Minnesota bundled with a Zeiss Ikon Ikonta in 2003. A few days later the Carl Zeiss Tessar lens peaked my interest and I did some research.... very surprised to find what I had or the claimed rarity of it!

Well here are some pictures in as found condition, the owner of the corsopolaris website has since fully restored it once it was in his possession.

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