{"id":11291,"date":"2018-04-11T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=11291"},"modified":"2018-04-10T02:31:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T06:31:28","slug":"a-childs-camera-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-childs-camera-for-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"a child&#8217;s camera for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11294\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Kodak-ad-LIFE-May-30-1949.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11294\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11294\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Kodak-ad-LIFE-May-30-1949-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11294\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A contact 127 snap c1949<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. My friend George Dunbar sent me an email the other day that got me thinking of my childhood. Like the Ansco Panda, Kodak&#8217;s Baby Brownie was targeted at children, especially around Christmas and birthdays.<\/p>\n<p>When I was in grade six, I took a school bus trip on a day outing. Accompanying me was my new Baby Brownie. The little box camera took 127 film and I tracked down\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Super-XX_sm.pdf\">fastest black and white film of the day<\/a> &#8211; Kodak <a href=\"https:\/\/thedarkroom.com\/old-rolls-film-developing\/kodak-super-xx-film\/\">Super XX<\/a>. I should have stuck with Verichrome! None of my indoor snaps came out needless to say since the camera was about f\/16 at 1\/25th second and free of any features like a flash gun.<\/p>\n<p>At least the trip was exciting, so much so I was almost left behind on the return trip. Fortunately my teacher, Miss MacGregor, was sharp eyed and responsible! She did a head count before leaving each stop.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to George for discovering this old May 30th, 1949 Kodak ad from LIFE magazine. Those were the days &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. My friend George Dunbar sent me an email the other day that got me thinking of my childhood. Like the Ansco Panda, Kodak&#8217;s Baby Brownie was targeted at children, especially around Christmas and birthdays. When I was in grade &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-childs-camera-for-christmas\/\">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":[195,1823,14,21,1822,498],"class_list":["post-11291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-ansco","tag-baby-brownie","tag-film","tag-kodak","tag-panda","tag-super-xx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11291","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=11291"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11297,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11291\/revisions\/11297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}