Leica in Stalin's Russia -- soviet editorial from 1934

The article is actually thoughtful and reasonably well written, probably more balanced than many contemporary reviews. It's funny to see that Leica, and the 35mm format in general, was viewed as the modern, quick-and-dirty technology supplanting the superior but big-and-slow larger formats, leading to indiscriminant picture snapping. Exactly what us contemporary Leica and film sniffers say about digital. When we have full waking-hours retinal real-time image capture we'll probably say the same thing about the good old digital camera days.

My thoughts exactly.
 
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