{"id":19572,"date":"2021-01-13T04:25:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T08:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=19572"},"modified":"2021-01-08T15:04:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T19:04:16","slug":"the-red-button-aunt-tilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-red-button-aunt-tilly\/","title":{"rendered":"the RED button, aunt Tilly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19578\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ACC1958.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19578\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19578\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ACC1958-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ansco Color Clipper c1958 courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikeeckman.com\/2020\/10\/ansco-color-clipper-1958\/\">Mike Eckman<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Late in the last century, past president Don Douglas and I represented the PHSC with a &#8220;dog and pony&#8221; show on the history of photography. Don used his camera collection to show the evolution of cameras while I showed a slide talk on the key developments from Daguerre to the Kodak camera.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;s talk was always entertaining. He collected mainly <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ansco\">Ansco<\/a> cameras. The name comes from one of the first photographic supply houses in America &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Equipment-and-Materials-Catalogue-Anthony-1888.pdf\">Anthony and Scoville<\/a>. Like many, I used and processed Anscochrome 35mm colour slide film. Ansco cameras stood out with their red shutter release buttons.<\/p>\n<p>Don suggested that every family had an &#8220;aunt Tilly&#8221; who was unfamiliar with photography but willing to take a family photograph.\u00a0All that was needed was to ask &#8220;aunt Tilly&#8221; to hold the camera steady and just &#8220;press the red button&#8221;. Simple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Late in the last century, past president Don Douglas and I represented the PHSC with a &#8220;dog and pony&#8221; show on the history of photography. Don used his camera collection to show the evolution of cameras while I showed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-red-button-aunt-tilly\/\">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":[195,3475,3474],"class_list":["post-19572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-ansco","tag-anthony-and-scoville","tag-red-button"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19572","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=19572"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19581,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19572\/revisions\/19581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}