{"id":11851,"date":"2018-06-18T07:07:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T11:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=11851"},"modified":"2018-06-17T14:33:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T18:33:59","slug":"early-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/early-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"early photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11853\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/E30.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11853\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11853\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/E30-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11853\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Watkins Standard c 1890<br \/>actinometers for cameras and enlargers.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. PHSC co-founder John Linsky sent me an email the other day suggesting this excellent site for early photographic cameras and equipment. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlyphotography.co.uk\">Early Photography<\/a> as the site is named, is based in the UK and as such is weighted towards British and European gear.<\/p>\n<p>The site spans a wide period of time from the 1850s to a century later, the 1950s.\u00a0 Lots of photos of each category and descriptive text. Take a look!<\/p>\n<p>The page on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlyphotography.co.uk\/site\/entry_E30.html\">Watkins Standard Actinometers<\/a> is typical of the site with many illustrations, technical listings, and an essay on the family of actinometers that preceded the well known Watkins Bee (the Bee came to market in 1902 although the Standard continued to be sold for nearly two more decades).<\/p>\n<p>I have a couple of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlyphotography.co.uk\/site\/entry_E49.html\">Wynne&#8217;s Infallible<\/a> meters, an 1893 competitor. And the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlyphotography.co.uk\/site\/entry_E259.html\">Wynne&#8217;s Hunter<\/a> model, first offered in 1914. The meters were fascinating to me as they seemed to be built into a pocket watch case. And where did I get such little marvels of historic times past? At our photographic-fairs, of course!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. PHSC co-founder John Linsky sent me an email the other day suggesting this excellent site for early photographic cameras and equipment. Early Photography as the site is named, is based in the UK and as such is weighted towards &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/early-photography\/\">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":[1944],"tags":[34,1996,58,279,1995,220,1997],"class_list":["post-11851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-cameras","tag-essays","tag-history","tag-lenses","tag-light-meters","tag-photos","tag-specs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11851","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=11851"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11857,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11851\/revisions\/11857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}