Being a German… reminds me of the situation sitting on a low wall in Dallas and the bank security kinda polite ask me not to sit in front of their building
In case you wonder: The sign at 8:13 reads (roughly): "Caution! Do not step on the wall. Do not lean over the wall. Exercise care when approaching and oversee playing children." One could argue that Jordan filming counts as overseeing, so everything is fine. :) I love that you chose this spot. :D
I am very happy with my purchase. Once it arrives I will grind off that guys name and paint it and put new leather on it. It will look like brand new 📷
It was great to meet you both, Chris and Jordan, after the auction. You have really done justice to old Wetzlar and Marburg ( which I visited with the LHSA group in 2018) both in your commentary and your lovely black and white images. I have written an article about old No 105 and have been following the progress of the camera through the auction process for about a year now. The camera was not owned by Leica, but by a private owner in the US who had placed it with Leitz Auction. Some people have commented on the 'Oskar v Oscar ' thing in regard to the engraving. Oskar's gravestone reads 'Oscar' as does his marriage cert from 1903 which was in a file of papers which came with the camera and which I had the privilege to examine the day before the auction. Also his son Conrad Barnack always referred to his father as 'Oscar' in various writings and in a book draft which was also sold at the auction. I had an opportunity to examine this plus the original blueprints for the 0 and I Series Leicas which came from a source outside of Leica and which were also sold at the auction. One final point is that Barnack's name was actually Wilhelm Oskar Barnack, which means that he had the same first name as myself. Maybe, we might see you again, Chris and Jordan, at the LHSA - International Leica Society -meeting in my native Dublin next October. It was a pleasure to meet the two of you and to find that you are just the same as you are in your videos. Keep up the great work guys.
As one of your German followers and fans I was surprised and pleased to see you all of a sudden so close to my home and for once not in Canada. Thanks for the great insights into the Leica World in Wetzlar. Wise decision that you shot in Marburg (where I fell in love with my wife in the late 90s), which is much nicer than Wetzlar. As a hybrid shooter (digital and film), I also thought it was great that Chris shot analog an b&w on this trip to Germany. Great pictures came out of it, love the grain, great impressions! Thank you, I love your videos and reviews!
Was a nice surprise to see Wolfgang Pauritsch there as the auctioneer (9:02). He is also one of the dealers in the very successful German antique show “Bares für Rares” (cash for rare goods).
At 8:15 Chris sits on a wall right above a sign that says: "Achtung! Betreten der Mauer verboten. (etc.)", It means: "Caution! Stepping on the wall is forbidden." Great you guys were in Marburg, my wife studied there, I have been all the places you showed many times. By the way: The colorful little shed behind Chris in this scene is a camera obscura! Greetings!
Great to see you guys continuing looking in all directions and not only focusing in the new gear. I really love the reviews of the new stuff but, the wooden niccolls, the unsung cameras of yesteryear and the battle of f-stop ridge stuff and the long awaited year end drinking/goofiness/reviews are the ones I cherish most above all. Great job as always my friends! Congrats
Nice work Chris 👍🏻 Great portrait of the always handsome Jordan. I’d love to see a retro review every now and again showcasing various analog cameras as well as various film stocks. I really enjoyed this and great choice with the 400 speed 👌🏻
Great change of pace from the typical content. And loved the little anecdote at the end! Sounds like a great way to remember why one loves photography...
Pretty nice twist. The warning sign says "Standing on the wall is prohibited. Leaning over is prohibited" But it says nothing about sitting on it. Nice Chris :D
Those black and whitr shots are beautiful. Black and white always requires the viewer to intuit certain aspects of the scene and draws you into the shot in a way color doesn't. Thank you.
Loved this guys! The focus (pardon the pun) on the philosophy of the shooting experience is beautiful and something I'd like to see more from you both. Thank you for another great video and cheers from Scotland!
1:38 5:00 The name of 35mm format as invented by Barnack is "Kleinbild". It translates to "small frame". Not "full frame". "Full frame" always has been marketing misdirection because it wrongly implicates that a digital 35mm Kleinbild frame is the largest frame size available and hence deserves to be referenced as "full frame" - with crops of full frame being inferior as they lack what's provided by full frame. Ironically, the original Leica Kleinbild cameras were selling with the same value proposition against established larger formats, much like today's 1 inch, Micro Four Thirds and APSC cameras are being marketed: small and compact, unobtrusive, candid and stealthy while providing excellent image quality. Most digital Kleinbild systems today are heavy and the opposite of being unobtrusive. The SL system is the anti-thesis of an Oskar Barnack camera. Almost as blasphemous btw is the marketing around today's digital "medium format" which as a format is hardly larger than 35mm Kleinbild, evident by the fact that you can use lenses on these wannabe medium format bodies that only render 35mm format image circles yet only produce a slight vignette on what's supposed to be a much larger "medium format" sensor size.
12,000,000 euros! wow, on a serious note photography is so important and something we can take for granted. Images can be so impactful and captures a fleeting 1/400sec in time that will last a lifetime. I don't shoot film but looking at the images they look incredible and words can't really describe why a image taken with film is so special.
Amazing video! Great job at capturing the essence of Leica - both the brand and the experience. Hope you can do more of this type of storytelling in the future. All the best from California!
Nice shots Chris. Please consider doing more film-centric videos. As more people go back to shoot film, yes; camera prices will go up, but hopefully film prices will come down. I had a blast shooting my $300 Olympus 35SP in NYC and hopefully even more will return.
Knowing that this very camera is such an important piece showing the Leica origins and culture around , it , I ask myself , why is such a marvel sold in the first place.This icon belongs to be kept in a museum in Wetzlar itself and not being sold to , probably a person who doesn't care about photography or might taken pictures with a decent camera but just seeing this as a piece of" investment". By the way , where is this camera now , in China?
The camera that invented 35mm photography was the Simplex Model B, designed by engineer and cinematographer Alfred Moses and commercially introduced in 1914, when Oskar was still dinking around in his workshop with prototypes. The Simplex was a compact, hand-held camera that made 24x36mm exposures on 35mm motion picture film… sound familiar? Then came the Tourist Multiple, the Sico, and various other 35mm-film cameras in various sizes and formats. The Leica didn't appear commercially until 1925, and ever then it was just a scale-focusing, fixed-lens camera… it didn't acquire interchangeable lenses until 1931 or a built-in rangefinder for focusing until 1932. Certainly it helped create interest in 35mm photography… mostly because it was a plaything for rich hobbyists who enjoyed publicity… but the notion of Leica “inventing” 35mm photography is just a long-running fiction by the self-promotional masters at Leica and their fanboys.
Incidentally, Oskar (not “Oscar” as engraved on the record-price-setting camera; do they really expect us to believe that his son didn't know how to spell his name?) did NOT design the Leica to use “canisters of 35mm film,” because those canisters didn’t exist until 1934, when Kodak introduced them to go with its then new Retina camera. It was this canister, still known as the 135 magazine, that made 35mm film cameras genuinely popular. Before that, to get film into your Leica, you either had to finagle it into special reloadable magazines in a darkroom or changing bag, or buy paper-wrapped “daylight load” spools, much like those of roll films, that could be loaded in subdued light without fogging… usually… if you were lucky.
6:00 Now I'm going to have to go through and count how many times Chris parrots the pants-on-fire party line that Leica “invented 35mm photography.” I know Canadians have a reputation for politeness, but come on…
You need 35mm film before the camera for 35mm photography to exist. All Leica did was choose what they thought was more convenient without a massive loss of quality. The film already existed.
A great program, it showed how much we owe to Oscar Barnack and Leica. Your photos show real soul you should continue with film preferably with a Leica.
can you see how film forces you to stop fuxkkng about and actually think about what your are shooting , as you don’t have unlimited attempts and the ability to spend time analysis and over analysing what you have just shot and more time being in the moment and considering what you have just taken .. isn’t it both freeing and liberating experience .
Great video guys. All of your videos are well done, but this one was great I just returned from a trip to France, which included a trip to Wetzlar. It was wonderful to tour the Leica facility, view the manufacturing area and experience the history. A trip to the old town with a Leica was special. Thanks guys.
Really great video you two. I began using Leica M cameras several decades ago and really enjoy the user experience (quite smooth process once you get accustomed to it). Chris’s B&W photos are great and I could see an MP or M6 in his collection. The MP is truly an example of mechanical perfection (or about as close as one can get).
Thanks Chris. Yes, an M11 Monochrom would be great. (I thought it was interesting when Tony Northrup brought out an M10D in a recent video and mentioned that it is actually his favorite camera for walking around and for making family photographs.)
This is where I live! Oh man, I'd be so happy to see you both live in person! More than Oskar Barnack's Leica. I've been a follower since the very old camerastoretv days. Marburg, Wetzlar, Kassel, Fulda are all nice locations for photography. Next time we will meet!
Not even that. Not just prototypes, but actually full production models existed that employed 35mm film way before the Ur-Leica. What Barnack pioneered was a very compact and light camera with high-resolution lenses. The first mass-produced 35mm camera was probably the Tourist Multiple, although even earlier models exist.
Phantastic to hear, that you liked it here in Germany. 😃👍 That was a really good reportage I enjoyed watching. Different to the normal reviews, but definitely as interesting and even more. 👋😁👍
Funny and great to see you in Marburg! Lovely city and fun to see you struggling the stairs up the hill. Really tedious, so no blaming here 😁 you really seemed to enjoy the trip!
Jealous, must have been an amazing event, and a great time in general. I noticed you had a 'Canadian' lens, was that one of your requests too....? I have the M6 and love it! Lusted for one in the 80's while I used my also great Nikon F3, and finally could afford one decades later. Turns out it was made same year my lust was in full bloom. You cover Leica so well and it's very clear it holds a special place for you. Thanks as always for these videos. BTW - did you visit the mark in the street in Wetzlar where Oscar supposedly took the very first photo with a 35mm camera? Want to see that some day.
Why no comments allowed on Lerry Chen's video? He is my fav car youtuber! His videos and photos are incredible! I was shocked his appearance on your channel guys. Chris needs to make a chat broadcast with him!
