{"id":24213,"date":"2022-10-05T01:03:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T05:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=24213"},"modified":"2022-10-03T01:39:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T05:39:25","slug":"he-is-the-flash-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/he-is-the-flash-man\/","title":{"rendered":"he is the flash man"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24214\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Auto-22freeze22-Popular-Mechanics-March-1946.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24214\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24214\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Auto-22freeze22-Popular-Mechanics-March-1946-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">freeze Frame<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. The March, 1946 edition of Popular Mechanics has an article on a unique 35mm camera designed for the US Army&#8217;s Surgeon General. Around the camera&#8217;s lens is a flash tube that flashes a 1\/25,000th second burst of light &#8220;brighter than the sun&#8221; to capture the photo of an open eye for example.<\/p>\n<p>Three decades later such &#8216;ring&#8217; flashes were common place for shadow free close-ups of all sorts of things. Thanks to my good friend and fellow PHSC member, George Dunbar, for discovering and sharing this piece of photographic history.<\/p>\n<p>NB. The title of this post is a riff on that incessant and irritating TV advertisement by Oliver Jewellery, &#8220;I am the cash man&#8221;. The commercial encourages you to bring in your old and broken gold, etc. jewellery for money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. The March, 1946 edition of Popular Mechanics has an article on a unique 35mm camera designed for the US Army&#8217;s Surgeon General. Around the camera&#8217;s lens is a flash tube that flashes a 1\/25,000th second burst of light &#8220;brighter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/he-is-the-flash-man\/\">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":[398,755,3122,4194],"class_list":["post-24213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-camera","tag-flash","tag-medical","tag-us-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24213","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=24213"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24217,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24213\/revisions\/24217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}