Barnack built three Ur-Leicas between 19 (Pic: Leitz AG) The little negatives would be easy to make prints from in an enlarger. 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. Between 19, Barnack perfected the design of a camera that, a decade later, would enter the market as the first Leica camera. Cine film’s size – 18 x 24mm compared to large plates used in many stills cameras – was Barnack’s springboard to develop the world’s first 35mm camera.īarnack realised that by doubling the dimensions of the film – 36mm instead of 18mm – he could build a camera that was much more ergonomic and pleasing to use. Cinema films used a much smaller film format than stills cameras of the time, making them much lighter and easier to carry. At Ernst Leitz, he was involved in the production of the company’s first cine camera. It’s believed that Barnack began thinking about a camera small enough to take anywhere as early as 1905. Barnack, a skilled mechanic who worked in the microscope department of Ernst Leitz in Wetzlar, was an enthusiastic amateur photographer who often took cameras with him on his travels. In the legend that has been built up around Oskar Barnack’s famous photographic creation, one small detail is often overlooked: his asthma.Īt the turn of the century, many cameras – Kodak’s lightweight Brownie excepted – were bulky, heavy and difficult to carry. KF article top Barnack’s first pictures shows the historic Eisenmarkt in the centre of Wetzlar (Pic: Oskar Barnack)
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