{"id":22075,"date":"2021-11-24T01:03:43","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T05:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=22075"},"modified":"2021-11-24T23:21:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T03:21:24","slug":"bobs-zeiss-miroflex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/bobs-zeiss-miroflex\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob&#8217;s Zeiss Miroflex"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22076\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Zeiss-Mir-oflex.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22076\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22076\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Zeiss-Mir-oflex-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"159\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22076\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zeiss <a href=\"http:\/\/camera-wiki.org\/wiki\/Miroflex\">Miroflex<\/a> press camera as an SLR<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Our late editor, Bob Lansdale favoured Canadian photographic history and photographs, especially Chromotypes, over cameras and hardware. He was always concerned that there would be too few hardware\/camera articles in each issue of Photographic Canadiana. To this end, Bob chose to collect cameras of interest to him.<\/p>\n<p>As an old news photographer mid last century, Bob picked up a nice Zeiss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacificrimcamera.com\/pp\/zimiroflex.htm\">Miroflex<\/a>. This European Press camera lived two lives &#8211; one as a standard ground glass back press camera with the vertical tower and viewer collapsed and the mirror locked up, and the other as a press SLR as shown here. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.butkus.org\/chinon\/zeiss_ikon\/zeiss_ikon_miroflex\/zeiss_ikon_miroflex.htm\">Mike Butkus has a copy of the instruction manual<\/a> (English) as a pdf file.<\/p>\n<p>The above image is from Bob&#8217;s article in the 46-5 issue of the journal as included in the hard copy version, &#8220;Special 2020 Annual Issue&#8221;. 46-5 and the hard copy annual were only available to society members (and the hard copy version by request only).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Our late editor, Bob Lansdale favoured Canadian photographic history and photographs, especially Chromotypes, over cameras and hardware. He was always concerned that there would be too few hardware\/camera articles in each issue of Photographic Canadiana. To this end, Bob &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/bobs-zeiss-miroflex\/\">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":[24],"tags":[1114,3945,576,23],"class_list":["post-22075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-bob-lansdale","tag-miroflex","tag-photographic-canadiana","tag-zeiss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22075","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=22075"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22097,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22075\/revisions\/22097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}