Tag Archives: Pop Photography

cheap is how I feel

Posted on August 23, 2021 by Robert

Toronto. Post war, the camera industry exploded with pent-up demand. Federal in Brooklyn was mainly known in photographic circles for their enlargers (I had one). Their enlargers were cheaply made and cheaply sold. Around 1948, the company decided to do … Continue reading →

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Voigtlander cameras are here again

Posted on August 3, 2021 by Robert

Toronto. How do you get back your market share when your country was on the losing side of the war? Well. you can try to advertise in a magazine that is read by your potential  market. Voigtlander did. The famous … Continue reading →

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let Ed do it

Posted on June 27, 2021 by Robert

Toronto. One of the best known photographers in America was Edward Weston. I have a massive coffee table size book simply titled “Edward Weston: Fifty Years“. Published in 1973 by Aperture in the States, I bought my copy  new a … Continue reading →

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nothin’ but blue skies

Posted on June 18, 2021 by Robert

Toronto. Aerial cameras made many images for maps and other critical analysis functions. This camera was manufactured by a company founded in 1927 as the Fairchild Camera and Instrument company. After WW2, when transistors began to take on the functions … Continue reading →

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weegee the famous

Posted on June 17, 2021 by Robert

Toronto. Anyone out there who hasn’t heard of Weegee? Arthur Fellig and his trusty Speed Graphic haunted the streets of New York City mid last Century. He was busy beating cops and firemen to the scene and taking newspaper shots … Continue reading →

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the summer of ’44

Posted on June 14, 2021 by Robert

Toronto. WW2 was winding down the summer of 1944 and would end in Allied victory the following spring/summer. Graflex gave a novel twist to the war effort and the American fighting men suggesting the average American was Part-Owner of cameras … Continue reading →

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internal flash sync comes to the Leica

Posted on January 6, 2018 by Robert

Toronto. George Dunbar finds a wealth of these old advertisements on line. This December 1950 ad in Popular Photography announces the advent of internal flash synchronization in the famous Leica camera. Long over due, this feature was common in many … Continue reading →

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Rectaflex – an Italian 35mm SLR

Posted on January 2, 2018 by Robert

Toronto. My thanks once again to my friend and fellow PHSC member George Dunbar for this  vintage July 1950 ad from Popular Photography magazine. The Rectaflex camera at the time was manufactured in Italy and is relatively rare as it … Continue reading →

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Innovations from Graflex in 1949.

Posted on December 26, 2017 by Robert

Toronto. Thanks once again to George Dunbar for this crisp ad about the Graphic/Graflex cameras. It appeared in the December 1949 issue of Popular Photography. The big deal on the Graflex was twofold: An extra bright viewfinder courtesy of an … Continue reading →

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