{"id":19768,"date":"2021-01-29T03:59:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T07:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=19768"},"modified":"2021-01-27T00:24:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T04:24:17","slug":"fries-with-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/fries-with-that\/","title":{"rendered":"fries with that?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19769\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/franka-solida.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19769\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19769\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/franka-solida-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19769\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Franka Solida c1954 courtesy of the J Noir website<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. We often think German cameras like Zeiss, Zeiss-Ikon, Rollei, Leica, Nagel, Retina etc. but what about Franka (not hot dogs)? On J. Noir&#8217;s site, many cameras are described including those of the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnoir.eu\/en\/cameras\/franka\/solida\/\"> Franka Kamera Werk<\/a> in Bayreuth, Germany, at one time the largest maker of cameras in the area.<\/p>\n<p>At our <em>Vol. 2, ZOOM and Tell<\/em>, this month, member Jeri \u00a0Danyleyko showed her Franka Solida camera. The FKW was established early last century and operated until 1966. Many of the firm&#8217;s cameras were private branded before being offered for sale. This included a line of Montgomery-Ward cameras.<\/p>\n<p>The Solida series were medium priced models with a bellows, lens and leaf shutter reminiscent of pre WW2 Peggy or Retina cameras. Some pricier models have Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar lenses!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. We often think German cameras like Zeiss, Zeiss-Ikon, Rollei, Leica, Nagel, Retina etc. but what about Franka (not hot dogs)? On J. Noir&#8217;s site, many cameras are described including those of the Franka Kamera Werk in Bayreuth, Germany, at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/fries-with-that\/\">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":[3499,1650,58,110,320],"class_list":["post-19768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-franka-solida","tag-germany","tag-history","tag-phsc","tag-show-and-tell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19768","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=19768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19773,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19768\/revisions\/19773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}