First Picture on a Leica Camera

[drd1135]

A neat article:

Film Friday: This was the first picture taken on a Leica Camera

In 1914, in Wetzlar, Germany, inventor and visionary Oskar Barnack captured the first photograph taken with a Leica camera, the Ur-Leica.

www.dpreview.com

 

[Kevin]

Even reading the linked source article (The first picture taken on a Leica) the skeptic in me would want to know how it is known to be the first Leica photo.

 

[tonyturley]

Dang . . . I saw the thread title and thought we were going to see Steve's debut effort with his Leica S3 and a lens that costs more than my car. Now that I think about it, the S3 costs more than the current value of my car.

 

[drd1135]

Even reading the linked source article (The first picture taken on a Leica) the skeptic in me would want to know how it is known to be the first Leica photo.

I love the look of the camera. It actually looks like it was made in the back room. Pic’s not bad either. I wish I could see the back. I bet the LCD is pretty low rez.

 

[Kevin]

I love the look of the camera. It actually looks like it was made in the back room.

That is part of my skepticism - wouldn't it make sense then that the "first" photo was also taken in a backroom or whatever workshop it was constructed in? Now if the landmark in question was touted as the "first published" photo or similar...

 

[Richard]

If I'd just made a film camera, the first couple of shots would probably be of my legs and feet, followed by a few of a test chart and then maybe one out of the window. A nicely composed shot of buildings and people would come some way down the roll of film.

-R

 

[drd1135]

Even reading the linked source article (The first picture taken on a Leica) the skeptic in me would want to know how it is known to be the first Leica photo.

All part of the great cornucopia that is a photography forum.

 

[Kevin]

If I'd just made a film camera, the first couple of shots would probably be of my legs and feet, followed by a few of a test chart and then maybe one out of the window. A nicely composed shot of buildings and people would come some way down the roll of film.

-R

... or a weird angle shot of my face closeup from me staring at the front of it while muttering "Is that working...".

 

[boojum]

Even reading the linked source article (The first picture taken on a Leica) the skeptic in me would want to know how it is known to be the first Leica photo.

Because the fellow who took the first photo said so. Sheesh. And then there are the folks at Leitz he showed it to. I am a skeptic, too, and am usually appalled at the cult-like adulation fan-boys heap on the cameras. But I have no trouble believing this story.