{"id":16540,"date":"2020-01-27T05:32:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T09:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=16540"},"modified":"2020-01-23T03:48:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T07:48:54","slug":"the-trouble-with-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-trouble-with-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"the trouble with normal &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16541\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Hasselblad-Normal-80mm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16541\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16541\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Hasselblad-Normal-80mm-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16541\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zeiss Planar 80mm for Hasselblad<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. &#8230; is it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kybkiiAKMOY\">always gets worse<\/a>, or so sang Bruce Cockburn in the early 1980s in the song he wrote of the same name. Shown at left is the famous <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zeiss_Planar\">Zeiss Planar<\/a> 80mm f\/2.8 lens used as a normal lens on a Hasselblad This lens did not &#8220;get worse&#8221;as the song suggests. This beauty was a lot in a recent auction.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure about Hasselblads, since I usually saw them as studio cameras, but in the case of the Leica and other 35mm cameras, \u00a0a medium wide-angle lens like a 35mm or 28mm was far more suited to hand held street scenes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. &#8230; is it always gets worse, or so sang Bruce Cockburn in the early 1980s in the song he wrote of the same name. Shown at left is the famous Zeiss Planar 80mm f\/2.8 lens used as a normal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-trouble-with-normal\/\">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":[247,401,2978,2976,2977,23],"class_list":["post-16540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-hasselblad","tag-lens","tag-normal-focal-length","tag-planar","tag-t","tag-zeiss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16540","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=16540"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16546,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16540\/revisions\/16546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}