{"id":15074,"date":"2019-07-16T05:34:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T09:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=15074"},"modified":"2019-07-20T15:10:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T19:10:36","slug":"come-a-little-bit-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/come-a-little-bit-closer\/","title":{"rendered":"come a little bit closer&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15075\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Summmicron-50mm-28-inch-or-.7-m-close.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15075\" class=\"wp-image-15075 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Summmicron-50mm-28-inch-or-.7-m-close-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15075\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 1969 50mm Summicron all metal black anodized finish with a close focus of .7m<\/p><\/div>\n<p data-wp-editing=\"1\"><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. &#8230;cried the Mexican girl in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i2B62eF8pxo\">ballad<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Come_a_Little_Bit_Closer\">same name<\/a> sung by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marty_Robbins\">Marty Robins<\/a> back in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p data-wp-editing=\"1\">The standard set by Leitz in its Leica lenses was a close-up distance of 1m or 39 inches. Spider legs and various close-up devices allowed smaller items to be recorded, right down to 1:1.<\/p>\n<p>This standard was continued with the <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=10656\">Summicron<\/a> 50mm lenses until the famous lens was recalculated in Midland, Ontario by the magnificent lens designer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walter_Mandler\">Walter Mandler<\/a> to use only six elements. The close-up distance was reduced almost a foot to 28 inches or .7m. The lens was marketed in 1969. I bought mine in 1972 along with an M4 to photograph my two daughter, the youngest of whom was born that summer just before I took the plunge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. &#8230;cried the Mexican girl in the ballad of the same name sung by Marty Robins back in the 1960s. The standard set by Leitz in its Leica lenses was a close-up distance of 1m or 39 inches. Spider legs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/come-a-little-bit-closer\/\">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":[1944],"tags":[706,61,63,1511],"class_list":["post-15074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-closeup","tag-leica","tag-leitz","tag-summicron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15074","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=15074"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15118,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15074\/revisions\/15118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}