{"id":23622,"date":"2022-07-10T01:03:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T05:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=23622"},"modified":"2022-07-10T00:17:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T04:17:49","slug":"night-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/night-scenes\/","title":{"rendered":"night scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kodak ad Nov 1934 for ways to snap night scenes<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. Today’s savvy smartphone and digital camera users would roll their collective eyes at anyone touting ‘night scenes’ as a big deal. But it really was back in the mid 1930s in the days of slow film and generally slow lenses.<\/p>\n

Kodak had a ready solution: turn every serious amateur into a studio mogul on the cheap! This November, 1934 advertisement lets the cat out of the bag – so to speak. Just buy a genuine Kodak camera plus a couple of flood lights and a ‘super fast’ B&W film. The main criteria was the ‘couple of flood lights’. Following Kodak’s guide for subject\/light\/camera placement, a decent photo was inevitable!<\/p>\n

Our thanks to good friend and fellow photo history enthusiast. George Dunbar, for this trip down memory lane and the days when ‘night scenes’ usually meant food lights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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