{"id":14972,"date":"2019-07-02T05:16:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T09:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=14972"},"modified":"2019-07-01T11:51:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T15:51:32","slug":"new-york-in-1914-with-the-prototype-leica-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/new-york-in-1914-with-the-prototype-leica-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"New York in 1914 with the prototype Leica camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14973\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/ur-Leica-1914-NYC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14973\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14973\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/ur-Leica-1914-NYC-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14973\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ernst Leitz II: New York City, 1914 \u00a9 Leica Camera AG.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. On the eve of the Great War, the son and namesake of Ernst Leitz, Ernst Leitz II, arrived \u00a0in the Big Apple with the novel tiny ur-Leica created by Oskar Barnack. Leitz took a number of street scenes with the tiny camera to the indifference of New Yorkers since cameras of the day tended to be much larger, tripod mounted, or box shaped.<\/p>\n<p>One photograph has survived and is frequently reproduced, showing that work on the tiny camera began over a decade before it was marketed. The Great war intervened delaying its release until a market turn-down for microscopes prompted its manufacture and sale in 1924.<\/p>\n<p>Information abounds on the Leica and its place in history such as wikipedia&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leica_Camera\">Leica_Camera<\/a>&#8220;, the brief history on the site &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/notquiteinfocus.com\/2015\/02\/22\/a-brief-history-of-photography-part-13-the-early-story-of-leica-short-version\/\">Not Quite in Focus<\/a>&#8220;, and Wild-Heerbrugg&#8217;s excellent &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/wbk.wild-heerbrugg.com\/historie\/milestones-of-leica\">history and milestones of Leica<\/a>&#8221; (Wild-Heerbrugg also made microscopes and once collaborated and merged with Leitz. The Canadian branch was called Wild-Leitz when I first visited in the late 1970s\/early80s ). Many more sites show up on a Google browse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. On the eve of the Great War, the son and namesake of Ernst Leitz, Ernst Leitz II, arrived \u00a0in the Big Apple with the novel tiny ur-Leica created by Oskar Barnack. Leitz took a number of street scenes with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/new-york-in-1914-with-the-prototype-leica-camera\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[61,63,820,2657,327,2173],"class_list":["post-14972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-leica","tag-leitz","tag-minicam","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-oskar-barnack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14972"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14977,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14972\/revisions\/14977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}