Leica
The small camera that used cine film and changed photography.
Oskar Barnack built a prototype before the First World War to try out cine film. The camera went into production in 1925 and was named Leica, from Leitz camera.
With a small camera the photographer could move freely. Street photography and modern photojournalism grew up with it.
Materials: Metal, glass
Manufacture: Precision engineering from Ernst Leitz in Wetzlar.
The small body with rounded ends.
The lens that can be pushed in.
The 35-millimetre film, the same as for cinema.