{"id":24028,"date":"2022-09-05T02:15:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T06:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=24028"},"modified":"2022-09-05T02:15:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T06:15:43","slug":"ya-seen-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/ya-seen-one\/","title":{"rendered":"ya seen one &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24029\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Burke-James-American-Cinematograohy-May-1962.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24029\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24029\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Burke-James-American-Cinematograohy-May-1962-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24029\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">May, 1962 ad for a Burke and James field camera<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. &#8230;ya seen &#8217;em all! Or so a cynic might say. And with reason. Broadly speaking, cameras, cars, computers &#8211; and any other mass produced thing \u00a0begins to look the same as its stable mates.<\/p>\n<p>To a critical eye, they may <em>look<\/em> the same, but vary in subtle and not so subtle ways. Some have a unique feature(s), some use higher quality materials, some have finer tolerance, some better ergonomics and so on.<\/p>\n<p>In an ad from the May, 1962 American Cinematographer magazine, Burke and James in Chicago work hard to convince the reader that <em>their<\/em> field camera is better than any other on the market!<\/p>\n<p>Our thanks once again to my good friend and photo-historian, George Dunbar, for researching and sharing this advertisement with us.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. &#8230;ya seen &#8217;em all! Or so a cynic might say. And with reason. Broadly speaking, cameras, cars, computers &#8211; and any other mass produced thing \u00a0begins to look the same as its stable mates. To a critical eye, they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/ya-seen-one\/\">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":[2261,398,1971,1009],"class_list":["post-24028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-bj","tag-camera","tag-chicago","tag-field-camera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24028","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=24028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24032,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24028\/revisions\/24032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}