The first image captured with that camera, pictured above, was done so in the historic Eisenmarkt in Wetzlar, Germany. The little negatives would be easy to make prints from in an enlarger.’įirst image taken from the Ur-Leica by Oskar Barnack 1913, Eisenmarkt, Wetzlar, Germany The perforated cine film was much easier to advance using toothed rollers than the mechanisms in larger cameras. ‘Instead of the film being transported vertically, as it was in a cinema camera, Barnack’s prototype camera transported the film horizontally. ‘Barnack realized that by doubling the dimensions of film – 36mm instead of 18mm – he could build a camera that was much more ergonomic and pleasing to use,’ says Dowling. In it, he details how Barnack, ‘an enthusiastic amateur photographer who often took cameras with him on his travels, ’took inspiration from his work on Leitz’s first cinema camera to develop a compact stills camera that would, after a decade of tinkering, go on to become the first Leica camera. Stephen Dowling, founder of KosmoFoto, has written up an article detailing the history behind the first image captured on a Leica camera. In 1913, Oskar Barnack, an inventor and visionary who worked in the microscope department at Ernst Leitz, captured the first photograph with the Ur-Leica, the first 35mm still camera that would go on to define the Leica brand. Barnack built three Ur-Leicas between 19 (Pic: Leitz AG)
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