{"id":20237,"date":"2021-03-29T01:11:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T05:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=20237"},"modified":"2021-03-26T20:35:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T00:35:32","slug":"watcha-doin-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/watcha-doin-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"watcha doin’ Sport?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Russian SPORT Camera c1930 with rudimentary pentaprism finder. courtesy of \u00a0Siim Vahur<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. Growing up, camera innovation seemed to be mostly German with a dash of other European and American tossed in. But Russian? Really?<\/p>\n

According to this article from BBC’s Future site, dated 18th May 2016,\u00a0<\/span>by Stephen Dowling<\/a>, “How this odd-looking camera changed how we take photos<\/a>“, a Russian Photography Museum says the first SLR with a mirror version of a pentaprism was designed in 1930 for a Russian Camera called “Cnopm”<\/em> a name that translates as SPORT in English.<\/p>\n

Prior to pentaprisms, SLRs used waist level viewers and flip up mirrors giving an upright image reversed left to right for viewing and focussing. My Exakta used both a waist level viewer with a condenser for greater brightness, and an exchangeable pentaprism that allowed eye level viewing with the image both upright and correct right to left. Both had a ground glass bottom for focussing. The Pentaprism’s ground glass was removable too and could be swapped for a tiny dual prism rangefinder in the centre of the ground glass.<\/p>\n

Thanks to fellow PHSC member, photo history buff, and good friend, George Dunbar, for this unusual find. Russian? Sure – shades of my Exakta!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. Growing up, camera innovation seemed to be mostly German with a dash of other European and American tossed in. But Russian? Really? According to this article from BBC’s Future site, dated 18th May 2016,\u00a0by Stephen Dowling, “How this odd-looking … Continue reading →<\/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":[1921,3595,58,905,129,3593,3596,681,3594],"class_list":["post-20237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-1930s","tag-cnopm","tag-history","tag-mirror","tag-museum","tag-pentaprism","tag-russian","tag-slr","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20237","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=20237"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20249,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20237\/revisions\/20249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}