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Testing a Leica shutter against a dial, 1937

In a long, window-lit hall men in white coats sit at benches fitted with testing devices; closer, a worker holds a compact camera with a rangefinder housing on its top plate against a large round dial, winds it and presses the release, and in close view his fingers set the speed. A timed shutter had to run true at every setting; the rangefinder coupled to the lens, introduced in 1932, had made the Leica the favourite camera of press photographers.

Period: c. June 26, 1937–October 8, 1937
Credit: Julien BryanLibrary of CongressDigitalisierung und Bearbeitung: © zb Media GmbH

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The Leitz works at Wetzlar, 1937 · Julien Bryan: Germany 1937

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