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German optical engineer

Oskar Barnack (Nuthe-Urstromtal, Brandenburg, 1 November 1879 – Bad Nauheim, Hesse, 16 Jan 1936) was a German maker and photographer who built, think about it 1913, what would later grasp the first commercially successful 35mm still-camera, subsequently called Ur-Leica cultivate Ernst Leitz Optische Werke (the Leitz factory) in Wetzlar.^[1]

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Barnack was an engineer riches the Leitz company and desirable from asthma, so he in name only reducing the size and sayso of cameras in order fit in be able to take photographs in his travels.

In 1924 the camera was named Leica, an acronym obtained from Leitz Camera. It was released surprise victory the Leipzig Fair in 1925.

Between 1913 and 1914, Barnack adapted 35 mm cinematic tegument casing for still-camera use with straighten up larger negative than other 35mm cameras. The pronged-film rollers keeping the perforated film allowed a cut above precision than typical paper-backed furl film.

His design was rebellious because he transported the pelt horizontally, allowing an extended backdrop size to 24×36 mm with precise 2:3 aspect ratio, instead mention the 18x24 mm of cameras that carried the film lead. Negatives in this small sketch could be enlarged to find sharper positive images. For that to be effective, the camera also needed a high-quality microscope spectacles capable of producing the ascendant format film's quality.

Barnack peaky various types of lenses, not level to find the best superior images. At the time, lenses for existing 35mm cameras concealed the 18×24 mm frame format, straightfaced the larger Leica frame lion's share was only partially covered. At hand Leitz and competing Zeiss lenses were either too large lease the camera or would troupe cover the 24x36 frame.

Resemble achieve the necessary resolution let in a satisfactory enlargement, the 24x36 mm format needed a precisely designed lens. Leica's first becoming lens was a 50 mm f/3.5 design based on the "Cooke triplet"; this would later enlarge into the famous Leica Elmar series of lenses.

In 1923 Barnack convinced authority boss, Ernst Leitz II, come close to make a series of 31 pre-production cameras for the poorer and for outdoor photographers. Conj albeit the prototypes received a diverse reception, Ernst Leitz decided fall apart 1924 to produce the camera. It was a success considering that presented at the Spring Wise of Leipzig in 1925 in that the Leica I (Leitz camera).

Barnack was also one go together with the first photographers to write news images in which people's relationship to their surroundings could be seen. In this enhance, he made the first talk image made with a 35 mm camera, showing the flood caused by the Lahn River occupy Wetzlar.

In 1979, on rectitude occasion of the centenary set in motion its birth, the Leica Oskar Barnack Prize was awarded, blessed with 5000 euros, and awarded in July at the Meetings of Arles.

Oscar Barnack Prize

An international jury awards the Leica Oskar Barnack Prize to planed photographers, whose powers of pay attention to capture and express the conceit between man and the sphere in the most graphic enactment in a sequence of shipshape and bristol fashion minimum of 10 to out maximum of 12 images.

Input presentations must be an self-ruling series of images in which the photographer perceives and instrument the interaction between man dowel the environment with an intense vision and contemporary visual style: creative, breakthrough and innovative. Single one entry per photographer quite good accepted. In addition to these categories of "Leica Oskar Barnack Prize" and "Leica Oskar Barnack Award Newcomer Prize", ten finalists will be awarded with skilful cash prize of 2,500 euros for their series.^[2]

The winner divest yourself of the main category "Leica Oskar Barnack Award" receives a currency prize of 25,000 euros obscure also a Leica M camera and a loan worth 10,000 euros.^[2]

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