⚡ Are my articles too long? Click this button for a condensed version!This article traces the origin story of the Leica camera back to Oskar Barnack, a Zeiss engineer with severe asthma who joined Ernst Leitz GmbH around 1911–1912 to develop lightweight equipment, including an aluminum-bodied 35mm motion picture camera. … Continue reading Oskar Barnack’s First Leica