{"id":21213,"date":"2021-08-04T01:22:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T05:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=21213"},"modified":"2021-07-30T22:36:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T02:36:20","slug":"catching-graflexes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/catching-graflexes\/","title":{"rendered":"catching Graflexes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21214\" style=\"width: 163px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Graflex-Popular-Photography-Feb.-1948.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21214\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21214\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Graflex-Popular-Photography-Feb.-1948-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"153\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Feb 1948 Pop Photography advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nToronto<\/strong>. Pre WW2 and for a few years there after, Speed Graphic and Graflex cameras reigned supreme as the press photographers&#8217; cameras of choice. The Graflex series offered SLR capability for larger plate and film sizes. Those who saw the Graflex in action could sometimes just stare open-mouthed!<\/p>\n<p>The above advertisement from the February, 1948 issue of Popular Photography magazine demonstrated the flexibility and popularity of this line. About a decade later, I considered a Graflex, but after seeing the rather complex combination of slot sizes and spring tensions needed to give the range of shutter settings, \u00a0bought a Japanese camera called the <a href=\"http:\/\/camera-wiki.org\/wiki\/Rittreck_(6\u00d79)\">Rittreck IIa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My thanks goes to friend and fellow PHSC member George Dunbar for this trip back in time to the wonderful ads in post-war Popular Photography.<\/p>\n<p>Note: The title of this post is a riff on an old saying, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourdictionary.com\/catch-flies\">catching flies<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Pre WW2 and for a few years there after, Speed Graphic and Graflex cameras reigned supreme as the press photographers&#8217; cameras of choice. The Graflex series offered SLR capability for larger plate and film sizes. Those who saw the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/catching-graflexes\/\">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":[972,973,34,14,263,1014,681],"class_list":["post-21213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-ad","tag-advertisement","tag-cameras","tag-film","tag-graflex","tag-press","tag-slr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21213","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=21213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21218,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21213\/revisions\/21218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}