{"id":14761,"date":"2019-06-02T06:20:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T10:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=14761"},"modified":"2019-06-01T20:41:03","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T00:41:03","slug":"a-closer-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-closer-look\/","title":{"rendered":"a closer look"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14762\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/auto-up.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14762\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14762\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Auto-Up-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14762\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The AUTO-UP lens attachment for a Leica to allow close-ups down to a 1\/2 metre<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. For many years the convention for mini-cams was infinity down to one metre (1m). Many normal lenses for the Leica followed this standard leading to a variety of means to frame and focus in the macro range &#8211; closer to the subject than a metre.<\/p>\n<p>This led to a number of third party devices that let Leica owners and others use their normal lenses at distances closer than the engraved 1m mark. An example shown here is the AUTO-UP device that fit many different 35 mm cameras.<\/p>\n<p>The one shown is for the Leica with a non-rotating Summitar normal lens. A one diopter auxiliary lens allows the camera to focus from the regular 1 m down to a half metre. Above the lens is a rectangular lens that adjusts the position of the viewfinder and rangefinder accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>Owners of other cameras could buy a similar device designed to fit their camera and lens. The little screw at the bottom connected the device to the lens like a filter or lens hood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. For many years the convention for mini-cams was infinity down to one metre (1m). Many normal lenses for the Leica followed this standard leading to a variety of means to frame and focus in the macro range &#8211; closer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-closer-look\/\">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":[2617,2619,1128,61,2618],"class_list":["post-14761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-auto-up","tag-auxiliary-lens","tag-close-up","tag-leica","tag-mini-cam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14761","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=14761"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14765,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14761\/revisions\/14765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}