{"id":22009,"date":"2021-11-16T01:04:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T05:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=22009"},"modified":"2021-11-15T01:05:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T05:05:48","slug":"remembering-korda-camera-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/remembering-korda-camera-montreal\/","title":{"rendered":"remembering Korda Camera Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22010\" style=\"width: 159px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/baby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22010\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22010\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/baby-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"149\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22010\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baby taken in Toronto summer 1972 with new M4<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. I spent some time researching alternative Leica camera models <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/leica-q\/\">in the early 1970s<\/a>. After settling on the M4 as the best offered, I searched the camera shops for one (newer models were out by then and any new M4s were hard to find) and at a good price. I ended up at Korda (I think it was on Sherbrooke near rue Guy).<\/p>\n<p>I quickly discovered the clerk knew less about the cameras he sold than me. He tried to sell me the lens hood as an extra until I pulled out a March 1971 catalogue and showed him that item 11 309 was the lens and its hood! He had confused the hood with the replacement hood item 12 504.<\/p>\n<p>I was happy to head home with a Leica M4 body and a Summicron 5cm lens and hood. The body in chrome trim and the lens with black anodized trim &#8211; and the black hood. Camera body and lens\/hood came in two separate boxes. My goal for the M4 was to photograph my second baby girl reliably indoors, something a bit uncertain with my aging eyes and the Exakta.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. I spent some time researching alternative Leica camera models in the early 1970s. After settling on the M4 as the best offered, I searched the camera shops for one (newer models were out by then and any new M4s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/remembering-korda-camera-montreal\/\">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":[2228,3932,61,1709,124,1511],"class_list":["post-22009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-baby","tag-korda","tag-leica","tag-m4","tag-montreal","tag-summicron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22009","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=22009"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22021,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22009\/revisions\/22021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}