The following excerpt from the
British Journal of Photography from 1890 shows how far reaching the
introduction of the Leica was just a few years later.
WARNING:
“It is granted that hand cameras are
indispensable for such as street views, or on the beach, or on shipboard, but
they are decidedly out of place for use as picture producers. Therefore let us oppose all attempts to
popularize the use of hand cameras at our photographic outings, the high
standard of pictorial excellence to which landscape photography has attained
being in great danger of reduction by the use and abuse of hand cameras.”
R. P. Drage, British Journal of
Photography, vol. 37, 1890; p. 565.
This reminds me of an official at the US Patent Office who said at about the same time that patents were no longer necessary because everything that could possibly be invented had been invented.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what R. P. Drage would have thought of taking pictures with a telephone?
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