{"id":23794,"date":"2022-08-04T01:03:26","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T05:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=23794"},"modified":"2022-08-03T23:18:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T03:18:23","slug":"before-we-had-xerox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/before-we-had-xerox\/","title":{"rendered":"before we had Xerox …"},"content":{"rendered":"
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August, 1939 article showing a ‘portable’ photo copier solution<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. Before we had the modern Xerox copiers, \u00a0photography helped businesses make decent copies, A brief article in the August, 1939 issue of Popular Mechanics describes a special camera that was considered ‘portable’ and printed directly to special paper.<\/p>\n

A mirror on the lens allows the original paper to lie flat horizontally and the copy printed vertically on the special paper.<\/p>\n

For amateurs, photography could also be used to make copies on regular photo paper using various devices like closeup lenses, ‘spider legs’, frames, extension tubes, bellows, copy stands, etc.<\/p>\n

Today, digital cameras and smart phones make copies even easier. As well, many people have scanners – either as stand-a-lone machines or built in to a printer. Over a half century ago, small organizations or those with simple needs could use a gestetner<\/a> stencil or a spirit duplicator<\/a> like my school used when I was very young.<\/p>\n

Our thanks goes out to my good friend and fellow photo enthusiast, George Dunbar, for graciously sharing his findings with us (I told my wife as I lugged her rather heavy old ‘portable’ TV set around, “just stick a handle on anything and it becomes a portable …”).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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