{"id":16647,"date":"2020-02-09T05:39:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T09:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=16647"},"modified":"2020-02-07T16:23:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T20:23:43","slug":"cause-cheap-is-how-i-feel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/cause-cheap-is-how-i-feel\/","title":{"rendered":"’cause cheap is how I feel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Keystone K-20 8mm camera<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. If you were living in the Eastern States in 1961, you could buy a \u00a0Webcor Regent Coronet stereo tape recorder and get a free movie camera. The camera was the low cost Keystone twenty<\/em> model with a single f\/2.3 fixed focus lens – basically a box camera for 8mm.<\/p>\n

The tape recorder was a reel to reel audio recorder which came with two microphones. Such machines were very popular at the time. In the late 1950s, my friend Terry and I took his massive Ampro reel to reel tape recorder backstage at the Rymark (on Peel) in Montreal and recorded a session by Bo Diddly when he was a rising name in music.<\/p>\n

Keystone<\/a> made many cameras over the years. The company was established in Boston in 1919 and survived until 1968 when it was sold to Berkey<\/a> Photo and moved to Clifton NJ. as \u00a0part of Berkey’s camera division. I bought my dad a Keystone 8mm camera in the late 1950s that looked like this model except it had a turret.\u00a0The Twenty<\/em> was likely Keystone’s entry level model as higher priced cameras sported turrets and faster lenses in those days before reasonably priced zoom lenses.<\/p>\n

Thanks once again to my good friend George Dunbar for spotting this historic advertisement in the March 17, 1961 issue<\/a> of LIFE magazine. NB. the title of this post \u00a0is from the Cowboy Junkies’s haunting “‘cause cheap is how I feel<\/a>” tune sung by Margo Timmins on their “the caution horses” CD. The group is Canadian, started in Montreal and later moved to Toronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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