{"id":10380,"date":"2017-12-26T08:58:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T12:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=10380"},"modified":"2017-12-24T00:24:56","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T04:24:56","slug":"innovations-from-graflex-in-1949","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/innovations-from-graflex-in-1949\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovations from Graflex in 1949."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10381\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Graflex-ad-December-1949-Popular-Photography.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10381\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Graflex-ad-December-1949-Popular-Photography-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10381\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">December 1949 Graflex Ad inPopular Photography<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. 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.<\/p>\n<p>The big deal on the Graflex was twofold: An extra bright viewfinder courtesy of an <em>Ektalite<\/em> field lens and an auto full aperture lens which closed to a predetermined stop just before taking an exposure.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly a decade later I bought an Exakta 35mm SLR with a beautiful bright viewfinder using the same concept to give a bright image and lenses that could be preset to stop down before the exposure was made &#8211; \u00a0one lens stopped down automatically and the other two with a special pre-set aperture ring. This was my first experience with such a large and bright viewfinder.<\/p>\n<p>As to the Graphic, it boasted a coated and colour corrected lens with built-in flash capability at all speeds (i.e. it had a leaf shutter in the middle of the lens).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/innovations-from-graflex-in-1949\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[972,835,263,1476,1637,914],"class_list":["post-10380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-ad","tag-exakta","tag-graflex","tag-graphic","tag-pop-photography","tag-popular-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10380"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10385,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10380\/revisions\/10385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}