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Oskar Barnack, a Common card
Oskar Barnack was a German inventor and photographer who built, in 1913, what would later become the first commercially successful 35mm still-camera, subsequently called Ur-Leica at Ernst Leitz Optische Werke in Wetzlar.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 51
- DEF
- 38
- Power
- 89
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 10,000
Power 89 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 30 % of WikiCards cards.
Oskar Barnack quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Oskar Barnack card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
Oskar Barnack was a German inventor and photographer who built, in ____, what would later become the first commercially successful 35mm still-camera, subsequently called Ur-Leica at Ernst Leitz Optische Werke in Wetzlar.
Answer
1910s. Oskar Barnack was a German inventor and photographer who built, in 1913, what would later become the first commercially successful 35mm still-camera, subsequently called Ur-Leica at Ernst Leitz Optische Werke in Wetzlar. From the Oskar Barnack article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Galactic tide. Galactic tide 58 · Angular displacement 54 · Oskar Barnack 51 · Ford Crestline 44 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Oskar Barnack was a German inventor and photographer who built, in 1913, what would later become the first commercially successful 35mm still-camera, subsequently called Ur-Leica at Ernst Leitz Optische Werke in Wetzlar.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Oskar Barnack article was read about 10,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 51 and blocks with 38: each hit it takes is cut by 15 %.
How to get Oskar Barnack
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Oskar Barnack (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Oskar Barnack, Germany, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
