{"id":306,"date":"2006-10-20T07:13:59","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T14:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2006\/10\/20\/leica-witness-to-a-century\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T08:39:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:39:27","slug":"leica-witness-to-a-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2006\/10\/20\/leica-witness-to-a-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Leica &#8211; Witness to a Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>A fine chronlogy, if factually flawed<\/i><\/p>\n<p><center><img src=http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/LeicaWitness.jpg><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I picked up my copy of this book a couple of years ago from overstock bookseller <a href=http:\/\/www.edwardrhamilton.com\/inquiry.html target=_blank>Edward R. Hamilton<\/a> for a few dollars. It&#8217;s actually worth that sort of money.<\/p>\n<p>This is the last place to go for factual accuracy regarding the various Leica models; I am no maven but could scarce find a page without several technical errors accompanying each of the illustrations of the many models of cameras made by Leitz over the years.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the book does a fine job of showcasing the work of some great photographers from Oscar Barnack, the inventor of the Leica (he was a fine photographer), down to modern times.  Especially pleasant to see is the work of a couple of relatively unknown Italian photographers, probably attributable to the nationality of the Italian author, Alessandro Pasi.<\/p>\n<p>And, technical errors apart, who can argue with the caption for the M3, first sold in 1954?  &#8220;The turning point: Leica M3&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fine chronlogy, if factually flawed I picked up my copy of this book a couple of years ago from overstock bookseller Edward R. Hamilton for a few dollars. It&#8217;s actually worth that sort of money. This is the last place to go for factual accuracy regarding the various Leica models; I am no maven &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2006\/10\/20\/leica-witness-to-a-century\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Leica &#8211; Witness to a Century<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-leica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41977,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/41977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}