{"id":19476,"date":"2020-12-26T04:24:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T08:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=19476"},"modified":"2020-12-26T13:15:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T17:15:04","slug":"an-old-boxing-day-box-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/an-old-boxing-day-box-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"an old boxing day box camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19477\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/BoxKodak.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19477\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19477\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/BoxKodak-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/BoxKodak-sm.jpg 225w, https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/BoxKodak-sm-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19477\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1930 50th Anniversary Box Camera by Kodak<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Boxing day on December 26th used to be THE day for sales. Then boxing day week, then black Friday, now COVID-19 and total lockdown over the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it is fitting to celebrate boxing day with a box camera. Box cameras were the simplest of designs &#8211; fixed focus meniscus lens (about f\/16), simple two blade shutter (about 1\/25), simple viewer, and a box to keep out the light and hold the lens and shutter the correct distance from the roll film.<\/p>\n<p>Kodak&#8217;s Brownie line saved money by using cardboard and a paper covering instead of wood and a leather covering. In 1930, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Eastman-Kodak, Eastman badged a bunch of Brownie <a href=\"http:\/\/camera-wiki.org\/wiki\/Hawk-eye_No._2\">Hawk-Eye No 2 cameras<\/a> with a round gold coloured paper circle and offered a camera free to anyone child who turned 12 that year on a first come basis (until all 550,000 or so \u00a0cameras were handed out by the retailers). A Brownie \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brownie-camera.com\/anniv.shtml\">linked site says<\/a> &#8220;in North America&#8221; but the ad shown on the site says &#8220;America&#8221;. I vaguely remember a member saying the largess of Mr Eastman was limited to 12 year old American children in 1930.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Boxing day on December 26th used to be THE day for sales. Then boxing day week, then black Friday, now COVID-19 and total lockdown over the holidays. Still, it is fitting to celebrate boxing day with a box camera. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/an-old-boxing-day-box-camera\/\">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":[3456,1277,398,58,21],"class_list":["post-19476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-3456","tag-box","tag-camera","tag-history","tag-kodak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19476","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=19476"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19495,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19476\/revisions\/19495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}