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Ermanox Camera Was Soon: The Ermanox Camera was soon replaced by the mo Flexible 35mm film camera, which had the advantage th it was smaller and enabled the photographer to tal thirty-six negatives in rapid succession on a single loai ing of inexpensive standard motion-picture film. Ti first Camera of this type to become popular with amateu and professionals alike was the Leica, designed just b fore World War I by Oskar Barnack, a mechanic in tl experimental workshop of the optical firm of E.Photojournalists were the first to make wide use of the miniature camera. Both Erich Salomon and Felix H. Man came to prefer the Leica to the Ermanox. Alfred Eisen-stadt covered the Ethiopian War; Peter Stackpole made pictures of the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco as the workmen saw it, from vantage points hardly accessible to the cameraman with standard equipment; Thomas McAvoy took the readers of Time magazine into President Franklin D. Roosevelt's office and showed them a statesman at work, not posing.
Containing the New Optical Laws of the Camera Obscura or Daguerreotype, demonstrated that converging perpendiculars of the Camera image were indeed mathematically correct and concluded: "Art has always represented objects geometrically, or as they cannot be seen in the perpendicular and visually, or as they can be seen in the horizontal direction."3 But his findings were ignored. Indeed, amateurs were warned in manuals and instruction books never to tip the camera. Many hand cameras were even equipped with levels to assure the viewer that he was holding the Camera horizontally. |
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