Can We Declare Camera Size a Solved Problem?

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Can We Declare Size a Solved Problem?

Surreptitious street photographers like quiet cameras. Certain other photographers like loud ones—I remember how surprised I was to learn that a fashion-photographer acquaintance didn’t like the then-new Nikon F4 when it came out, because the shutter was

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small size was for a very long time a sort of holy grail…or at least a selling point for some. The original “Barnack camera”—the Leica before there was an “M”—was designed by Oskar to be as tiny as it could be, basically barely bigger than the cassette of film it had to hold