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...things like Zero fighters and dreadnoughts." Canon got started in 1933 when Mitarai, then a practicing M.D., enlisted some technician friends to develop better optical equipment for hospitals. While they were about it, they turned out Japan's first 35-mm. camera, a near copy of the German Leica. Recalls Mitarai: "My associates had a really difficult time producing this prototype without infringing on German patents." After Pearl Harbor, Canon was among the small and nonessential industries that the Japanese government wanted to close down. "I had many friends among the military," says Mitarai. "I had to take over...
...body is a mobile of miscellaneous fruits and melons, and her early career was largely a matter of putting them on display. But Sophia no longer leans forward for just any passing Leica. "Some day," she says with the earnestness of a starlet, "I hope that everyone will say I am a great actress and I will be remembered for that." In Sophia's case, the critics are beginning to take the statement with some seriousness. Two months ago, the New York film critics named her 1961's best actress. Next week at the Academy Award ceremonies...
...Kremlin, by David Douglas Duncan. History-haunted halls and cathedrals, diamonds and diadems, as seen through an eloquent Leica lens...
...Kremlin, by David Douglas Duncan. History-haunted halls and cathedrals, diamonds and diadems, as seen through a Leica lens: an exclusive and eloquent photographic study...
...Douglas Duncan's camera. This glittering hoard-jeweled scepters and prayer books, imperial gowns and priestly vestments, carriages and thrones-was buried art treasure until Duncan wangled Khrushchev's permission in 1956 to roam the Kremlin's history-haunted, relic-strewn halls and cathedrals with his Leica...