{"id":12970,"date":"2018-10-23T06:20:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T10:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=12970"},"modified":"2018-10-22T20:38:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T00:38:38","slug":"ansco-camera-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/ansco-camera-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Ansco camera ad in 1953"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12972\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Ansco-cameras-1953.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12972\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12972\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Ansco-cameras-1953-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ansco Cameras in a 1953 ad<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Ah! <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ansco\">Ansco<\/a>. This ad appeared in 1953, about 25 years before Ansco became GAF (it was a subsidiary of GAF since 1939). \u00a0Never strong up here, one bought Ansco to avoid the leader of good inexpensive cameras &#8211; Kodak.<\/p>\n<p>Have a look at the ad and reminisce on the good old days when one bought Ansco to defy &#8220;Big Yellow&#8221;. Personally, I used Anscochrome colour slide film. At 32 ASA, it was faster than the <a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=172\">Kodachrome<\/a>\u00a0(I used it too) of the day. And more importantly, it was sold in bulk and you could develop it yourself! The film and process were patterned on the Agfa process which also used large molecule colour couplers.<\/p>\n<p>My thanks once again to friend and PHSC member George Dunbar for taking the time to ferret out this bit of memorabilia from over six decades ago when film was king with no alternatives in sight!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Ah! Ansco. This ad appeared in 1953, about 25 years before Ansco became GAF (it was a subsidiary of GAF since 1939). \u00a0Never strong up here, one bought Ansco to avoid the leader of good inexpensive cameras &#8211; Kodak. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/ansco-camera-ad\/\">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":[972,973,195,13,21],"class_list":["post-12970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-ad","tag-advertisement","tag-ansco","tag-kodachrome","tag-kodak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12970","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=12970"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12976,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12970\/revisions\/12976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}