{"id":10623,"date":"2018-01-23T08:17:17","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T12:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=10623"},"modified":"2018-01-31T22:35:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T02:35:20","slug":"the-bigger-the-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-bigger-the-better\/","title":{"rendered":"the bigger the better"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10625\" style=\"width: 213px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Leitz-enlarger-ad-Oct.-1951-Pop-Photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10625\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10625\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20170924-150218-DSC05532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10625\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leitz <a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=9679\">Focotar<\/a> Lens<br \/>click to see 1951 ad<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. \u00a0George Dunbar sent me an ad for the Leitz enlarger <em>Focomat 1c r<\/em>ecently. The ad is from the October 1951 issue of Popular Photography. The icon at left is my Focotar lens which I bought from the late Bill Belier in April, 1987.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t care for the parallel arms the professional Leitz enlarger used to adjust magnification, nor its 2x -10x autofocus range, nor the less expensive, manually focussed, \u00a0Leitz Valoy enlarger.<\/p>\n<p>My preferred enlarger was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phsc.ca\/refbooks.html\">Durst M35<\/a> which I still own. It is a marvellous instrument \u00a0with a Schneider componon 50mm autofocus lens. The enlarger embodies every technical provision conceptualized by Gilbert Durst.<\/p>\n<p>When Leitz first marketed its <em>minicam<\/em> Leica in 1924\/5, the big task it faced was to convince professional photographers that a miniature negative suitably developed and enlarged could equal a commercial print contact printed, saving the photographer cost and weight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. \u00a0George Dunbar sent me an ad for the Leitz enlarger Focomat 1c recently. The ad is from the October 1951 issue of Popular Photography. The icon at left is my Focotar lens which I bought from the late Bill &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-bigger-the-better\/\">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":[1151,1698,1697,1696,1445,61,63],"class_list":["post-10623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-durst","tag-durst-m35","tag-focomat-1c","tag-focomat-ic","tag-focotar","tag-leica","tag-leitz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10623","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=10623"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10695,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10623\/revisions\/10695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}