to the man who started it all!
Richard G
Veteran
I wonder who the portraitist was. I’ve always liked this photograph. it is claimed his respiratory handicap was the driving element behind developing the Leica. Maybe. I reckon he’d have done it with good lungs and one tough hike. He was in just the right place, already with a lot of the necessary technical knowledge and mechanical engineering manufacturing skills available. The most extraordinary thing is his serial documentation of the development of the 35mm camera from its earliest conception. Hard to think of another transformative engineered product with a similar provenance.
Vince Lupo
Whatever
I'd have to say that of all the cameras I've been through over the last 47 years, I'd say only the Barnack Leica has really stuck.
xayraa33
rangefinder user and fancier
He was a real innovator.
neal3k
Well-known
If I had only one camera, it would be one of my Barnacks. I could even be happy with my 1930 Leica I since I zone focus and "Sunny 16" exposures.
Dralowid
Michael
I wonder if he would have approved of the fashion of calling his cameras Barnacks when Berek named some of his lenses after his dogs?
raydm6
Yay! Cameras! 🙈🙉🙊┌( ಠ_ಠ)┘ [◉"]
His engineering drawing sketches are also very interesting:
JohnWolf
Well-known
A Barnack pilgrimage. Wonderful.
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Retro-Grouch
Veteran
That's high praise, considering some of the photos you've posted of your collection!