{"id":23207,"date":"2022-05-11T01:02:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T05:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=23207"},"modified":"2022-05-10T23:02:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T03:02:50","slug":"give-her-a-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/give-her-a-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"give her a hand!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23208\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/print-from-35mm-Popular-Mechanics-Aug.-1941.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23208\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23208\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/print-from-35mm-Popular-Mechanics-Aug.-1941-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">huge enlargement from tiny negative shown in an August, 1941 magazine<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. The August, 1941 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine has the article shown here. An image of a human hand was blown up about 52 diameters from the original on a 35mm negative.<\/p>\n<p>Years ago in Montreal, our company enlarged a 35mm negative to about the same size to create a huge poster. The person who snapped the shot and arranged for the huge print was also amazed at the ability to do such a huge blowup.<\/p>\n<p>However, to a trained eye the detail expected was simply not there. In microscopy terms we call this &#8217;empty magnification&#8217; meaning the extra magnification doesn&#8217;t show extra detail.<\/p>\n<p>My thanks once again to my good friend, George Dunbar, for sharing this article with us. And of course the so called grain-free enlargement is an accomplishment in its own right whether there is empty magnification for not!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. The August, 1941 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine has the article shown here. An image of a human hand was blown up about 52 diameters from the original on a 35mm negative. Years ago in Montreal, our company enlarged &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/give-her-a-hand\/\">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":[398,3992,14,1942],"class_list":["post-23207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-camera","tag-enlargement","tag-film","tag-print"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23207","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=23207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23211,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23207\/revisions\/23211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}