Here is another photo in my series on what the well-dressed photographer would carry at certain periods in history.
The camera is a 1938 Leica III in black paint. It is equipped with a 2.8cm f/6.3 Hektor lens, which was the extreme wide angle of its day and had just been introduced in 1935. The background telephoto lens is a 13.5cm f/4.5 Hektor. In the foreground is a 5cm Summar with a fast f/2 aperture. Next to the camera on the left is a variable focal length viewfinder. The Art Deco styled Remington 5 typewriter in the background is also of the same period.
This photography kit was state of the art in its day -- completely manual, built in range finder, and shutter speeds from 1sec to 1/500 sec. It is also one of the most beautiful cameras ever made and copied in retro-style designs even today.
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