{"id":12708,"date":"2018-09-24T06:39:18","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T10:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=12708"},"modified":"2018-09-24T03:17:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T07:17:20","slug":"ever-seen-a-gowlandflex-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/ever-seen-a-gowlandflex-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"ever seen a Gowlandflex camera?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Peter Gowland’s 4×5 TLR camera for glamour photography<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. My thanks to George Dunbar for getting my attention on this series of cameras (only about 600 made – too small for McKeown’s 2001-2002 camera guide).<\/p>\n

The late Peter Gowland<\/a> was a famous Hollywood photographer. His studio was well known for its glamour work that led to numerous cover shots and Playboy magazine centre-folds. Peter was known for making his own studio gear. His 4×5 and 8×10 TLR cameras were used to shoot many studio and outdoor shots.<\/p>\n

The cameras began in the late 1950s – even Karsh<\/a> used one. Perhaps the most famous TLR, or twin lens reflex was the Rolleiflex<\/a>. TLRs have two lenses with their focussing linked together. By using a faster lens fully open for the viewfinder, the camera design ensured the smaller aperture taking lens was always in sharp focus. The design removed a major user complaint against other popular cameras with their tiny squinty viewfinders and rangefinders.<\/p>\n

Gowland’s covershots included photos used for camera magazine, The November 1989 issue of American Photographer had an article on the cameras titled “Parallax, Anyone?<\/a>“. While Peter and his wife Alice have been dead for a few years now, their website<\/a> carries on covering exhibitions, famous photographs, and of course, the Gowlandflex<\/a> cameras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. My thanks to George Dunbar for getting my attention on this series of cameras (only about 600 made – too small for McKeown’s 2001-2002 camera guide). The late Peter Gowland was a famous Hollywood photographer. His studio was well … Continue reading →<\/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":[2219,2220,398,2222,2221],"class_list":["post-12708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-4x5","tag-8x10","tag-camera","tag-glamour","tag-tlr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708","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=12708"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12712,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708\/revisions\/12712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}