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Hasselblad Ad Detail - 1961 by Jim Eckberg Via Flickr: Scan from a 1961 modern photography ad.
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Hasselblad Ad Detail - 1961 by Jim Eckberg Via Flickr: Scan from a 1961 modern photography ad.
“Here we go, this is from Christmas 1952. Here we have-- Oops! He he Wrong movie. I thought you kept these locked in the basement closet. It’s okay kids, Mommy and Daddy were just . . . wrestling.”
National Geographic Magazine November 1955
Kodak Christmas ad !
Funnily enough, for a prestige brand like Leica, an ad like this would be just as plausible now; it’s aligned with their recent slow tv work. Trick now is that the longer copy would have to be less speccy & more descriptive of what can & will be captured (with the tech as the hero).
That Signet 35 camera would be over $800 in today's money.
National Geographic Magazine December 1954
National Geographic Magazine December 1968
I Leica like that!