{"id":13383,"date":"2018-12-18T07:19:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T11:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=13383"},"modified":"2018-12-17T00:04:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T04:04:48","slug":"international-radio-corporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/international-radio-corporation\/","title":{"rendered":"International Radio Corporation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13384\" style=\"width: 185px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Argus-ad-LIFE-Apr.-3-1939.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13384\" class=\"wp-image-13384 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Argus-ad-LIFE-Apr.-3-1939-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13384\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Argus A series cameras<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. In the 1930s, a small company in Ann Arbor, Michigan began manufacture of the latest, greatest thing &#8211; home radios. Their fresh egg was using Bakelite plastic for cabinets instead of expensive wood or metal cabinets. Their less expensive radio &#8211; the\u00a0AC\/DC mantle model Kadette radio took off.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the 1930s the company began making <a href=\"http:\/\/theargusa.com\/History.htm\">cameras<\/a> using their Bakelite expertise and the 35 mm cassette used by Kodak for its Kodachrome film. \u00a0The very popular Argus A was quickly followed by other models in the series, competing with the Kodak box cameras and folders of the day. They marketed a high end series best known for the Argus C3. The company changed its name to International Research Corporation, and later to <a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/35mmForTheProletariatAnniversaryEdition.pdf\">Argus Camera<\/a> (still <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Argus_(camera_company)\">existing today<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The 1939-41 Argus A2F model as advertised in LIFE in 1939 had a built-in extinction meter, and adjustable focus from infinity down to 15 inches, rather than the more common 3 feet. The shutter release was unique too. On the lens barrel, it could be rotated for right or left hand users! Thanks to George Dunbar for sourcing the old <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ca\/books?id=lk0EAAAAMBAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">April 3, 1939 LIFE<\/a> advertisement on page 82 of that issue (lots of pre WW2 coverage too).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. In the 1930s, a small company in Ann Arbor, Michigan began manufacture of the latest, greatest thing &#8211; home radios. Their fresh egg was using Bakelite plastic for cabinets instead of expensive wood or metal cabinets. Their less expensive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/international-radio-corporation\/\">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":[564,2130,816,2356,13],"class_list":["post-13383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-35mm","tag-argus","tag-box-camera","tag-cassette","tag-kodachrome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13383","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=13383"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13390,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13383\/revisions\/13390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}