{"id":22166,"date":"2021-12-06T01:06:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T05:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=22166"},"modified":"2021-12-05T23:56:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T03:56:29","slug":"a-pros-pro-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-pros-pro-line\/","title":{"rendered":"a pro&#8217;s pro line"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22168\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Graflex-The-International-Photographer-March-1941.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22168\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22168\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Graflex-The-International-Photographer-March-1941-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"163\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">March 1941 ad for the famous Graflex line<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. In North America, most newshounds or wanna be&#8217;s used one brand of camera and accessories: Graflex. In the International Photographer for March 1941 on page 17, Folmer Graflex touted its line of cameras and accessories as &#8216;prize winning&#8217; and &#8216;American Made&#8217;, statements most photographers of the day considered truthful.<\/p>\n<p>We can all remember the trusty Speed Graphic or Graflex with its iconic flash gun in the hands of a photographer at every news worthy event. Ken Metcalf down in North Carolina publishes a Journal (<a href=\"https:\/\/journal.graflex.org\">Graflex Journal<\/a>) devoted to this remarkable line,<\/p>\n<p>A big thanks goes out to PHSC member, good friend, and photographic historian, George Dunbar, for sharing this advertisement from some 80 years ago!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. In North America, most newshounds or wanna be&#8217;s used one brand of camera and accessories: Graflex. In the International Photographer for March 1941 on page 17, Folmer Graflex touted its line of cameras and accessories as &#8216;prize winning&#8217; and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-pros-pro-line\/\">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":[398,3962,3963,260],"class_list":["post-22166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-camera","tag-draflex","tag-folmer-graflex-corporation","tag-rochester"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22166","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=22166"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22171,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22166\/revisions\/22171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}