Leica 35 mm camera
Cámara Leica de 35 mm
- Date
- 1913–1925 · confidence high
- Place
- Wetzlar, Germany
- Credited to
- Oskar Barnack (Ernst Leitz GmbH)
- People
- 👤 Oskar Barnack1879–1936
- Field
- Communication
What it is
Compact precision camera using 35 mm cinema film in the 24x36 mm format. It created agile, discreet reportage photography.
What it led to
- Modern photojournalism (Cartier-Bresson, Capa) and illustrated magazines (Life)
- The 35 mm negative as the standard for 80 years
- Street and documentary photography
Built on
- Celluloid roll film1887–1889
- Cinematograph (cinema)1895
- Celluloid roll film
- German precision optics
Made possible
- 35 mm reflex camera
- Photojournalism