{"id":15170,"date":"2019-07-28T05:27:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T09:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=15170"},"modified":"2019-07-26T18:13:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T22:13:29","slug":"a-coomi-cutie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-coomi-cutie\/","title":{"rendered":"a COOMI cutie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15171\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/COOMI.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15171\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15171\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/COOMI-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">c1948 COOMI by Leitz NY lens is attached to removable ring shown attached (bottom of photo).<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. In the post WW2 days of film, you could make close-ups by placing an extension tube between camera body and lens or by adding a close up lens (+1, \u00a0+2, or +3 diopter) element to the front of the lens &#8211; like a filter.<\/p>\n<p>Leitz made both. Around 1948 Leitz NY made the COOMI, a micrometer extension tube, with fully variable spacing from 40mm to 60mm. You simply inserted it between the Leica screw-mount body and a screw-mount lens using the focoslide to take care of framing concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The COOMI came in both a matt chrome finish like I have and a black finish.\u00a0The front ring can be changed to accommodate a few different lens heads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. In the post WW2 days of film, you could make close-ups by placing an extension tube between camera body and lens or by adding a close up lens (+1, \u00a0+2, or +3 diopter) element to the front of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-coomi-cutie\/\">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":[1128,2703,58,1186],"class_list":["post-15170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-close-up","tag-coomi","tag-history","tag-leitz-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15170","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=15170"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15176,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15170\/revisions\/15176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}