{"id":22173,"date":"2021-12-07T01:03:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T05:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=22173"},"modified":"2021-12-06T21:00:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T01:00:10","slug":"for-the-ditherers-of-last-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/for-the-ditherers-of-last-century\/","title":{"rendered":"for the ditherers of last century"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22174\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Alpa-Reflex-II.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22174\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22174\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Alpa-Reflex-II-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"148\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Alpa Reflex II 35mm camera<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. \u00a0Back on May 10, 2019 before we were engulfed in COVID,<a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-marvel-of-swiss-engineering\/\"> I did a different post<\/a> on the Alpa line of cameras.<\/p>\n<p>Those 35mm photographers who couldn&#8217;t decide whether the rangefinder or SLR style was best, could always have both by choosing an <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-marvel-of-swiss-engineering\/\">Alpa camera<\/a> with both means of focus. This unusual design came with what were considered excellent lenses.<\/p>\n<p>At one time I was offered an <a href=\"https:\/\/camerapedia.fandom.com\/wiki\/Alpa\">Alpa<\/a> in exchange for my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterbug.com\/content\/rittreck-iia-multifunctional-slr\">Rittrick IIa<\/a> but for some quirky reason, I declined the swap. While the Alpa camera line was only around a few decades, the elaborate hand-assembled technique and Swiss precision made it a formidable line of 35mm cameras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. \u00a0Back on May 10, 2019 before we were engulfed in COVID, I did a different post on the Alpa line of cameras. Those 35mm photographers who couldn&#8217;t decide whether the rangefinder or SLR style was best, could always have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/for-the-ditherers-of-last-century\/\">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":[2432,398,2554],"class_list":["post-22173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-alpa","tag-camera","tag-swiss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22173","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=22173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22178,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22173\/revisions\/22178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}