{"id":23881,"date":"2022-08-17T01:03:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T05:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=23881"},"modified":"2022-08-16T14:40:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T18:40:37","slug":"a-tlr-box-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-tlr-box-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"a TLR box camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23882\" style=\"width: 197px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Kodak-Popular-Mechanics-July-1940.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23882\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23882\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Kodak-Popular-Mechanics-July-1940-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1940 ad for the Kodak Brownie Reflex camera<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. In July, 1940, Kodak placed an ad in Popular Mechanics announcing its new &#8220;TLR&#8221; Brownie. The camera was short lived (1940-41) but did last a decade longer as a synchronized version taking flash bulbs. Aside from the bight full-size viewfinder with its own lens, the camera has all the hallmarks of a box camera &#8211; inexpensive, fixed focus, two shutter speeds (one is &#8216;bulb&#8217;), etc.<\/p>\n<p>The camera uses 127 film and recommends a &#8216;standard&#8217; enlargement of each print (about a 2x enlargement).<\/p>\n<p>The ad suggests you &#8220;take your Kodak&#8221; if a planned visit to the NY World&#8217;s Fair is in your calendar.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks again to my good friend, George Dunbar, for sharing this advertisement of a rather short lived Kodak Brownie camera that used the very professional and finely engineered TLR of the day as a roll model.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. In July, 1940, Kodak placed an ad in Popular Mechanics announcing its new &#8220;TLR&#8221; Brownie. The camera was short lived (1940-41) but did last a decade longer as a synchronized version taking flash bulbs. Aside from the bight full-size &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-tlr-box-camera\/\">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":[328,398,21,1649,2221],"class_list":["post-23881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-brownie","tag-camera","tag-kodak","tag-reflex","tag-tlr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23881","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=23881"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23886,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23881\/revisions\/23886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}