{"id":19720,"date":"2021-01-20T04:40:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T08:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=19720"},"modified":"2021-01-19T21:12:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T01:12:00","slug":"hey-hey-hey-its-fat-elmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/hey-hey-hey-its-fat-elmar\/","title":{"rendered":"hey, hey, hey, it&#8217;s fat Elmar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19721\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/FatElmar-Ritz-Camera-Photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19721\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19721\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/FatElmar-Ritz-Camera-Photo-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19721\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fat Elmar made 1931-2. Photo courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ritzcam.com\">Ritzcam.com<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. In 1930, Leitz began marketing the tiny Leica with an interchangeable lens mount. According to Dennis Laney in his &#8220;Leica Collectors Guide&#8221; of September 1992, The medium telephoto 9 cm Elmar was one of the first three lenses added to the fold. The version in 1931-2 used the same lens head as future &#8216;thin&#8217; versions but with a fatter lens mount similar to that on a 73mm Hektor lens.<\/p>\n<p>Less than about 3,000 of these truly odd lens were ever made (the earliest were not rangefinder coupled apparently). I never picked up one although I did see a few offered at PHSC events in the early years of the society. Mine were all the &#8216;thin&#8217; version &#8211; aesthetically more pleasing to me. \u00a0The image at left is courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ritzcam.com\">Ritz Cam<\/a>\u00a0and appears on this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mir.com.my\/rb\/photography\/companies\/nikon\/nikkoresources\/RF-Nikkor\/Leica_RF\/Leica_ELmar90mmf4A.htm\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post title is a riff on the now vilified, but great comedian, Bill Cosby&#8217;s childhood character Fat Albert and the signature saying, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fat_Albert_and_the_Cosby_Kids\">Hey, Hey, Hey.It&#8217;s Fat Albert<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. In 1930, Leitz began marketing the tiny Leica with an interchangeable lens mount. According to Dennis Laney in his &#8220;Leica Collectors Guide&#8221; of September 1992, The medium telephoto 9 cm Elmar was one of the first three lenses added &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/hey-hey-hey-its-fat-elmar\/\">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":[3489,3491,3490,1188,63,3492],"class_list":["post-19720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-9-cm","tag-albert","tag-cosby","tag-elmar","tag-leitz","tag-ritzcam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19720","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=19720"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19724,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19720\/revisions\/19724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}