Digital shift...
Booming smartphone sales are eating into the digital camera market, but the inventor of the 35mm film camera isn’t blinking, Ellen Emmerentze Jervell reports on wsj.com.
High-end camera producer Leica Camera AG celebrated its first camera’s 100th anniversary last year with a limited-edition model emblematic of its effort to bridge old and new: a digital camera with no display—just an old-style viewfinder. The retro-chic design, which sold for €15,000 ($16,545), was a hit, she wrote.
For more of Leica's fascinating story and its shift to digital photography: http://www.wsj.com/articles/camera-maker-leica-survives-the-digital-shift-1426295228?mod=e2tw
Some Leica fans over the years:
Leica in the digital age
High-end camera producer Leica Camera AG celebrated its first camera’s 100th anniversary last year with a limited-edition model emblematic of its effort to bridge old and new: a digital camera with no display—just an old-style viewfinder. The retro-chic design, which sold for €15,000 ($16,545), was a hit, she wrote.
For more of Leica's fascinating story and its shift to digital photography: http://www.wsj.com/articles/camera-maker-leica-survives-the-digital-shift-1426295228?mod=e2tw
Some Leica fans over the years:
Pablo Picasso
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Alfred Eisenstaedt and Eli Wallach
Georgia O'Keeffe
Queen Elizabeth
Toni Garrn
Charlotte Rampling
Julia Roberts
Penelope Cruz
Scarlett Johansson
Audrey Tautou
Ali and Malcolm X
Jude Law
Daniel Craig
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