{"id":21915,"date":"2021-11-03T01:04:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T05:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=21915"},"modified":"2021-11-02T21:18:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T01:18:49","slug":"a-linhofty-objective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-linhofty-objective\/","title":{"rendered":"a linhofty objective"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21916\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Linhof-Popular-Photography-Oct.-1951.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21916\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21916\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Linhof-Popular-Photography-Oct.-1951-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21916\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">late 1951 ad for Linhof cameras by Kling in NYC<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. I dream about the last century when I used film and had a darkroom. I was sold on 35mm back then, but still dreamed of larger format media and cameras. For many years, I wanted to own and use a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Hd6sMnIIoGU\">Linhof Technika<\/a> and when George sent me the ad you see here, I already had fond memories of <a href=\"https:\/\/linhof.com\/en\/\">Linhof<\/a> in spite of the complexity of these cameras in use.<\/p>\n<p>A big thanks to my good friend George Dunbar for finding and sharing this ad from page 26 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ca\/books?id=I14zAQAAMAAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">October, 1951 issue of Popular Photography<\/a>. A linhofty (lofty) objective for sure in the days of cut film. I actually built darkrooms in four different communities before digital technology came along and made such rooms quaint (I am writing this from my last darkroom, now a home office and computer room).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. I dream about the last century when I used film and had a darkroom. I was sold on 35mm back then, but still dreamed of larger format media and cameras. For many years, I wanted to own and use &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-linhofty-objective\/\">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":[398,14,1650,2853,2154,327],"class_list":["post-21915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-camera","tag-film","tag-germany","tag-linhof","tag-munich","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21915","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=21915"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21919,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21915\/revisions\/21919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}