{"id":15177,"date":"2019-07-29T05:26:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T09:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=15177"},"modified":"2019-07-27T12:38:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T16:38:21","slug":"the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly\/","title":{"rendered":"the good, the bad, and the ugly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15179\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/ZOOXY.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15179\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15179\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/ZOOXY-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"148\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leitz ZOOXY for OOZAB focussing stage and 5cm Elmar lens. Early 1950s<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. When it comes to accessories for the Leica, the ZOOXY and its brethren are right up there as candidates for the ugly prize. The massive weighty thing is a focusing mount and extension tube that connects to an OOZAB focussing stage. It focuses a 5cm Elmar from 1m to 23cm (about 9 inches) using the Elmar&#8217;s bayonet and not its screw-mount threads. It was available from around 1951.<\/p>\n<p>The mount was later made with the much wider 51mm thread mount for the last run of focussing stages. It seems to be made of brass (it&#8217;s non magnetic) with a durable black enamel coating. If you were to drop it, I think the floor would suffer the damage, not the ZOOXY!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. When it comes to accessories for the Leica, the ZOOXY and its brethren are right up there as candidates for the ugly prize. The massive weighty thing is a focusing mount and extension tube that connects to an OOZAB &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly\/\">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":[1128,1188,2704,2658,61,63],"class_list":["post-15177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-close-up","tag-elmar","tag-focomount","tag-focussing-stage","tag-leica","tag-leitz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15177","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=15177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15183,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15177\/revisions\/15183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}