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Optic & Frame

People

People

The designers, engineers, repairers, collectors, and photographers behind the instruments.

Oskar Barnack (1879-1936), the Leitz engineer who built the Ur-Leica and invented 35mm still photography.

People

Oskar Barnack: The Man Who Shrank the Camera

Asthmatic, stubborn, and precise: the Leitz engineer whose 1913 prototype made photography fit in a coat pocket.