{"id":14481,"date":"2019-04-25T06:29:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T10:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=14481"},"modified":"2019-04-24T22:12:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T02:12:32","slug":"when-is-a-bolsey-not-a-bolsey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/when-is-a-bolsey-not-a-bolsey\/","title":{"rendered":"when is a Bolsey not a Bolsey?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14483\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Bolsey-ad-LIFE-Nov.-28-1955.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14483\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14483\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Bolsey-ad-LIFE-Nov.-28-1955-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"137\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bosley Jubilee ad in late 1955 LIFE magazine<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. When it is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hans.bissem.de\/meine-hobbies\/fotografieren\/history.html\">Alpa<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=13814\">Bolex<\/a>, of course! Jaques Bogopolsky was the camera designer for Paillard, a Swiss company \u00a0after they bought out his company, BOL SA.<\/p>\n<p>Jaques was born in the Ukraine and went by various names including Bolsky and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacquesbolseyproject.com\/cameras.html\">Bosley<\/a>. Being Jewish and fearing the Nazi regime, Jacques emigrated to the USA in 1939 and began designing cameras for the American military forces.<\/p>\n<p>After the war, he designed a series of consumer cameras under the Bosley name. His American cameras were made by another New York firm, Obex Corporation of Long Island. After the end of May, 1956, Obex also briefly became the distributors for Bosley cameras.<\/p>\n<p>The above Jubilee model is from a LIFE magazine ad (p 64) in the <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ca\/books?id=s1QEAAAAMBAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">November 28, 1955<\/a> issue. It came with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legacylens.eu\/lens-database\/german-lenses\/steinheil-munchen\/\">Steinheil<\/a> lens, from the old optical house in Munich (Munchen), Germany. The marketeers for Bosley emphasized the Set-O-Matic feature for setting exposure and coupling to the aperture, implying that exposure was the challenge to making great photographs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. When it is an Alpa or Bolex, of course! Jaques Bogopolsky was the camera designer for Paillard, a Swiss company \u00a0after they bought out his company, BOL SA. Jaques was born in the Ukraine and went by various names &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/when-is-a-bolsey-not-a-bolsey\/\">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":[2432,183,2430,398,2554],"class_list":["post-14481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-alpa","tag-american","tag-bosley","tag-camera","tag-swiss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14481","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=14481"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14486,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14481\/revisions\/14486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}