BWJones
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Neuroscientist
Vision Neuroscientist
Connectomics / VolumeEM
Photographer / #Leica
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Vision Neuroscientist
Connectomics / VolumeEM
Photographer / #Leica
In the data
bryanwjones.com
ORCID 0000-0001-5527-6643
November 18, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Reposted by BWJones
Learning about the Leica Freedom Train made me unexpectedly happy. So I added a lens (a 5cm 1:2 Summitar) made during its operation to my collection.
The lens was manufactured in 1939, in wartime Germany. At this time, the "Leica Freedom Train" was in full operation - smuggling Jews out of Germany by listing them as Leitz employees and sending them abroad to work in Leica offices in Britian, France, Hong Kong, and the United States.
Behind the camera - secret life of man who saved Jews from Nazis
Honour for German Leica manufacturer who sent prewar apprentices to US.
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Learning about the Leica Freedom Train made me unexpectedly happy. So I added a lens (a 5cm 1:2 Summitar) made during its operation to my collection.
The first camera I bought with my own money, I bought used from a man in Brooklyn with a numbered tattoo on his arm.
He told me a story of how Leica sent Jews to America with Leica cameras to make them “sales” people. The goal was to rescue them and get them out of Germany.
I bought that camera.
He told me a story of how Leica sent Jews to America with Leica cameras to make them “sales” people. The goal was to rescue them and get them out of Germany.
I bought that camera.
November 18, 2025 at 2:27 AM
The first camera I bought with my own money, I bought used from a man in Brooklyn with a numbered tattoo on his arm.
He told me a story of how Leica sent Jews to America with Leica cameras to make them “sales” people. The goal was to rescue them and get them out of Germany.
I bought that camera.
He told me a story of how Leica sent Jews to America with Leica cameras to make them “sales” people. The goal was to rescue them and get them out of Germany.
I bought that camera.
Mos def not a cult… <eyeroll>
November 18, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Mos def not a cult… <eyeroll>
Yeah, this 2016 4Runner may be my last Toyota. Porsche next perhaps.
November 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Yeah, this 2016 4Runner may be my last Toyota. Porsche next perhaps.
