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cliveh · Jan 23, 2015

If Oskar Barnack were alive today and able to design the next mobile phone with camera, how do you think it would look?

pdeeh · Jan 23, 2015

It would have a prominent Hello Kitty logo.

I have no doubt of this.

bdial · Jan 23, 2015

It would look similar to other mobile phones around, but smaller, and there would be a tiny door on the bottom into which you would need to insert a device that would enable the phone for 36 calls. To get the device into place properly you would need fingers the size of of a 5 year-old's.

OTH, 100 years from now you'll still be able to get parts and service for it, and there will be a market for using components from it on the latest and greatest imports from Alpha Centauri.

Bill Burk · Jan 23, 2015

Did he ever meet Henri Cartier-Bresson?

snapguy · Jan 23, 2015

Oskar

Oskar was simply trying to have a handy way of testing movie film using a short roll of the stuff. He was not parting the Dead Sea or responding to a Burning Bush.

cliveh · Jan 23, 2015

Bill Burk said:
Did he ever meet Henri Cartier-Bresson?

I don't know, but such a meeting would be interesting.

Dan Fromm · Jan 23, 2015

snapguy said:
Oskar was simply trying to have a handy way of testing movie film using a short roll of the stuff. He was not parting the Dead Sea or responding to a Burning Bush.

Heretic! Blasphemer! That you're right is irrelevant.

Ko.Fe. · Jan 23, 2015

cliveh said:
If Oskar Barnack were alive today and able to design the next mobile phone with camera, how do you think it would look?

You'll never know then. Because he will be hired by MI6's secret lab to build it for 007.

removed account4 · Jan 23, 2015

he'd be working for hasbro

Mustafa Umut Sarac · Jan 23, 2015

steam punk.

Bill Burk · Jan 23, 2015

I don't know what it would look like, but when you lift it to your eye, you will see the frame... and when you press the shutter release, you will take the picture.

Arklatexian · Jan 23, 2015

As he seemed to let "form follow function". he would do what he always did: design another Leica....Regards

cliveh · Jan 24, 2015

Bill Burk said:
I don't know what it would look like, but when you lift it to your eye, you will see the frame... and when you press the shutter release, you will take the picture.

If only digital cameras could do that.

John Koehrer · Jan 25, 2015

cliveh said:
If only digital cameras could do that.

Bllleeeecccchhh! Vommitus eruptum!

Please help.

I tried a digital camera once. Used stand developing 1 hr at 70ish degrees in Wartsnall. None of the pitchers came out. Did I leave it in the developer long enough?

Chan Tran · Jan 25, 2015

I don't think it would be as good looking as current Leica.

Chan Tran · Jan 25, 2015

John Koehrer said:
Bllleeeecccchhh! Vommitus eruptum!

Please help.

I tried a digital camera once. Used stand developing 1 hr at 70ish degrees in Wartsnall. None of the pitchers came out. Did I leave it in the developer long enough?

John you overdeveloped it. Developing time is less than 1 second. As soon as you take the pitcher you have to immediately look at the LCD which is your developed pitcher. However, it's not permanent and will disappear in a few seconds. Yeah digital isn't for long term.

Sirius Glass · Jan 25, 2015

snapguy said:
Oskar was simply trying to have a handy way of testing movie film using a short roll of the stuff. He was not parting the Dead Sea or responding to a Burning Bush.

It was the Red Sea, actually is the the Reed Sea.

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