{"id":22683,"date":"2022-02-11T01:01:02","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T05:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=22683"},"modified":"2022-02-10T23:05:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T03:05:24","slug":"photographic-ideas-that-fizzled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/photographic-ideas-that-fizzled\/","title":{"rendered":"photographic ideas that fizzled"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22684\" style=\"width: 170px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/no-darkroom-Popular-Mechanics-Feb.-1939.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22684\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22684\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/no-darkroom-Popular-Mechanics-Feb.-1939-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22684\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">no darkroom needed?<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. In 1939, some people disliked photographic darkrooms because they were ummm &#8211; dark. So somebody came up with contact print paper with a built-in orange filter and a special &#8216;flexible frame&#8217;. As a filler, Popular Mechanics published a small article touting the use of this special photographic paper which could be exposed and developed in a room illuminated by an unfiltered 100 watt light.<\/p>\n<p>Great idea once again, but with very poor timing. Two or three unfortunate factors: It was just before WW2 broke out. It was a few years after the minicam craze made enlargers <em>de rigueur<\/em> and contact paper barely an after thought. And a built-in safelight filter must have made the paper a bit more expensive, plus the cost of the special frame, not to mention a fixed print size &#8211; and no cropping post camera!<\/p>\n<p>As is often the case we must thank my good friend and photo historian, George Dunbar, \u00a0for discovering this hopeful little article buried in a February, 1939 issue of Popular Mechanics. Thanks, George.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. In 1939, some people disliked photographic darkrooms because they were ummm &#8211; dark. So somebody came up with contact print paper with a built-in orange filter and a special &#8216;flexible frame&#8217;. As a filler, Popular Mechanics published a small &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/photographic-ideas-that-fizzled\/\">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":[3286,286,962,14],"class_list":["post-22683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-contact-print","tag-darkroom","tag-exposure","tag-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22683","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=22683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22687,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22683\/revisions\/22687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}