“Shaking like a little child’: “Cash for Rares” dealer auctions camera for 14 million euros. “I will never be able to top that again,” says Wolfgang Pauritsch.
Oskar Barnack (1879–1936) revolutionized photography because he was an asthmatic and invented the Leica so that he no longer had to carry heavy equipment. The camera was the personal camera of the inventor of the 35mm camera.