{"id":11798,"date":"2018-06-12T06:33:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T10:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=11798"},"modified":"2018-06-10T12:55:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T16:55:42","slug":"would-you-rather-a-kodak-35-to-a-wet-plate-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/would-you-rather-a-kodak-35-to-a-wet-plate-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"would you rather a Kodak 35 to a wet plate camera?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11800\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Seagrams-LIFE-Oct.-30-1950.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11800\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Seagrams-LIFE-Oct.-30-1950-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kodak 35 RF Model<br \/>LIFE Oct 30, 1950 Ad<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. In late October, 1950, LIFE magazine ran an ad for Seagram&#8217;s American version of \u00a0Gin called <em>Ancient Bottle<\/em> Gin. To promote it as a modern drink, the ad suggested you would more likely prefer a snappy modern <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kodak_35_Rangefinder\">Kodak 35 rangefinder camera<\/a> capable of colour photographs to an old black and white slow speed wet-plate camera.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the Kodak 35 rangefinder camera is worth about $20 at best while the wet plate camera, tripod, and brass lens &#8211; if you can find them &#8211; would be very valuable. Ironic. The Kodak 35 rangefinder camera was the American war-time answer to the German Leica and lasted from 1940-1951. It was a fixed lens camera with various f\/3.5 Kodak lenses and shutters.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to George Dunbar for sourcing this lovely old advertisement. A step back in time indeed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. In late October, 1950, LIFE magazine ran an ad for Seagram&#8217;s American version of \u00a0Gin called Ancient Bottle Gin. To promote it as a modern drink, the ad suggested you would more likely prefer a snappy modern Kodak 35 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/would-you-rather-a-kodak-35-to-a-wet-plate-camera\/\">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":[972,1987,21,1741,61,425,857,1986,182],"class_list":["post-11798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-ad","tag-gin","tag-kodak","tag-kodak-35","tag-leica","tag-life","tag-rangefinder","tag-seagrams","tag-wet-plate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11798","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=11798"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11804,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11798\/revisions\/11804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}