"Die neue Foto-Schule" - 1937

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Visiting my mother, I came upon this interesting book, "Die neue Foto - Schule", lost in the middle of many other books that I had long forgotten.

That's the charm of old books: you forget about them, and then you rediscover them.

Again and again...

Going through the pages of this exemplar, one gets the chance of making a little trip back in time, to the world of photography in 1937!

And how the world has changed...
Beeig an admirer of german engineering, it is sad for me to see that most german brands, top brands, have long ago disappeared. A glance at some of the pages of this volume, clearly shows that.
Germany has long ago lost it's leading position in the photographic business, and the tradition of building handcrafted cameras is slowly waving goodbye.

We, photographers, are defenitively the losers!

The most important camera types (up to 6x9).

Eight small, but important helpers.

How to accomplish correct tonal value...

Handling the small camera...
(40 photographic rules for the 35mm format).

Cropped negative...

1936 was the year of the Olympic Games in Berlin, where the german photographic industry had the chance of showing off it's new photographic marvels, like the Carl Zeiss Jena 18cm (180mm) f/2.8 Olympia Sonnar Telephoto lens for the Contax camera.

Adolf was becoming more and more popular...

This page still makes the heart of any rangefinder enthusiast beat faster...

Something to read about shutter types...

Some advertisements that make me sigh...

Who remembers Perutz or Plaubel?

Rollei and Agfa are also gone...

We still have Leica, Zeiss and Schneider, but for how long?

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