{"id":21943,"date":"2021-11-07T01:07:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T05:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=21943"},"modified":"2021-11-05T23:52:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T03:52:40","slug":"and-you-thought-transistor-radios-tvs-monitors-trinitron-crts-and-walkmans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/and-you-thought-transistor-radios-tvs-monitors-trinitron-crts-and-walkmans\/","title":{"rendered":"transistor radios, TVs, trinitron, walkmans, and more …"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Late 2002 advertisement for the Sony DSC-F717<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. Today we usually think of Sony<\/a> as a TV and camera maker. They made their name in North America with a transistor radio and later the fabulous line of television sets and walkman portable tape players. When digital technology swept over the photographic industry, Sony moved on to cameras<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Their high end professional line was represented by the DSC-F717<\/a> and its replacements (like the DSC-F828<\/a> that I bought at the end of its availability retail and now use as my back -up camera for my NEX-6). When it became evident that other camera makers embraced the DSLR design for high end products, Sony dealt with Konica and bought its\u00a0Minolta line<\/a> with its A-mount and SLR mirror box design.<\/p>\n

The advertisement above is thanks to my good friend and fellow photo enthusiast, George Dunbar. It comes from page 16 of the\u00a0American Photo magazine for Nov\/Dec 2002<\/a>. This massive coffee table size magazine seems to be patterned after a European Fine Arts magazine called Zoom<\/a>. Browse the American Photo link to see its many excellent photos and articles as well as advertisements. Well worth a read (selected issues are hosted by Google Books and can be read page by page).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. Today we usually think of Sony as a TV and camera maker. They made their name in North America with a transistor radio and later the fabulous line of television sets and walkman portable tape players. When digital technology … 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":[1944],"tags":[3918,398,105,208,631],"class_list":["post-21943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-american-photo","tag-camera","tag-digital","tag-sony","tag-zoom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21943","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=21943"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21947,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21943\/revisions\/21947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}